Karma vs Heimerdinger
How to Beat Heimerdinger as Karma
based on 1,320 Karma vs Heimerdinger matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Heimerdinger Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Heimerdinger as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
Karma vs Heimerdinger Counter Stats
How to Counter Heimerdinger with Karma in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some strategic Karma against Heimerdinger counter statistics that can help us realize the differences between this pair of champions. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Heimerdinger’s ratio of NaN, showing that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Heimerdinger. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Karma often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Heimerdinger. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Heimerdinger
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Who is Better, Karma or Heimerdinger?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karma usually loses when taking on Heimerdinger, with a 48.9% win rate. As a result, Karma makes a bad counter for Heimerdinger.
While Karma does have a lower win rate compared to Heimerdinger, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Heimerdinger.
Additionally, Karma also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. 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 in League of Legends, in Karma vs Heimerdinger matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter to Heimerdinger. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Heimerdinger.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karma in order to counter Heimerdinger during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma on average picks up less CS as Heimerdinger. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Karma versus Heimerdinger build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting Heimerdinger than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 48.9% battling Heimerdinger with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating Heimerdinger as Karma, Karma players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Karma vs Heimerdinger counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.9% win rate overall.
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