Karma vs Jarvan IV
How to Beat Jarvan IV as Karma
based on 1,498 Karma vs Jarvan IV matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Jarvan IV Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Jarvan IV Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jarvan IV as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Jarvan IV
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 Jarvan IV
Cataclysm's terrain is a frightening force to fight against, but movement abilities can go through it.
Keep out of the path between Jarvan IV and his Demacian Standard to avoid being knocked up in the air.
Karma vs Jarvan IV Counter Stats
How to Counter Jarvan IV with Karma in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several valuable Karma against Jarvan IV matchup stats that can help us understand the differences between the pair. For instance, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Jarvan IV’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Jarvan IV..
Karma normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives less damage than Jarvan IV. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Jarvan IV
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Who is Better, Karma or Jarvan IV?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually wins when trying to fight Jarvan IV, with a 51.1% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a good counter to Jarvan IV.
While Karma does have a higher win rate compared to Jarvan IV, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Karma into Jarvan IV.
Additionally, Karma also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jarvan IV. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karma vs Jarvan IV matchups, Karma is the better champ with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Karma is a decent counter for Jarvan IV. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Karma against Jarvan IV.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karma in order to counter Jarvan IV during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma usually gets more CS compared to Jarvan IV. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Karma versus Jarvan IV build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Karma incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Jarvan IV than with many other typical builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 51.1% when playing against Jarvan IV with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating Jarvan IV as Karma, you should equip 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 builds we have analyed for Karma vs Jarvan IV counters, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Jarvan IV as Karma are presented for all skill levels combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.