Karma vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Karma
based on 3,692 Karma vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Garen Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Garen as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Garen
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
Advice to Win Against Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Karma vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Karma in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several significant Karma versus Garen counter stats that can help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Garen. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Karma normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives less damage than Garen. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Garen
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Who is Better, Karma or Garen?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karma usually loses when playing against Garen, with a 48.2% win rate. As a result, Karma makes a poor counter to Garen.
While Karma does have a lower win rate compared to Garen, when facing one another, Karma also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Garen.
Moreover, Karma also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karma vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter for Garen. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Karma in order to counter Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma often racks up less CS compared to Garen. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Karma versus Garen build include Morellonomicon, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma included at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Garen than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 48.2% battling Garen with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Garen as Karma, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Karma vs Garen matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.2% winrate overall.
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