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How to Win Karma vs Kalista Counter MatchupKarma is in the b tier of champions

Karma vs Kalista

How to Beat Kalista as Karma in LoLKarma is in the b tier of champions
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How to Beat Kalista as Karma

based on 1,005 Karma vs Kalista matchups
Win Rate
51.5 %
K/D/A
2.69
Pick Rate
1 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

We at MOBA Champion summarize millions of recently ranked LoL matches each and every week. In our data, Karma battled Kalista 1005 times. With so many matchups for Karma vs Kalista provides us confidence in our capability to prepare informative stats and a pro build to wreck Kalista. This particular champion matchup is fairly rare. Karma has to counter Kalista in only 1.0% of her rounds.

Karma vs Kalista Matchup Summary

Karma does a decent job of beating Kalista. Normally, she wins a acceptable 51.5% of the time the champs fight each other in. In Karma vs Kalista games, Karma’s side is 0.1% less expected to gain first blood, implying that she probably won't be able to get first blood versus Kalista.

Best Karma vs Kalista Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Health PotionWorld Atlas

Early Items

~5 Mins
Amplifying TomeIonian Boots of Lucidity

Core Karma Items

~22 Mins
MalignanceZaz'Zak's RealmspikeImperial Mandate

Optional Items

Cosmic DriveStormsurgeMorellonomiconArdent Censer

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerdot summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Karma to level upq
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Second ability for Karma to level upe
>
Last skill for Karma to max outw

Runes

SorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
InspirationBiscuit DeliveryCosmic Insight
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling
Karma's passive ability p
Karma's q ability q
Karma's w ability w
Karma's e ability e
Karma's ultimate ability r
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Q
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E
3
W
4
Q
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Q
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R
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Q
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Karma

Tips for Playing as Karma against Kalista

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 Kalista

Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.

If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.

Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.

Karma vs Kalista Counter Stats

Karma Image
Win Rate
51.5 %
VS
Win Rate
48.5 %
Kalista Image
3.1
< Kills >
8.2
5.8
< Deaths >
6.5
12.5
< Assists >
6.1
0.66
< Killing Sprees >
1.88
67
< Minions Killed >
174
0.05
< Dragons Killed >
0.35
0.53
< Inhibitors >
0.47
1,011
< Physical Damage >
17,698
14,136
< Magic Damage >
2,691
765
< True Damage >
530
15,913
< Damage Dealt >
20,919
18,280
< Damage Taken >
23,384
9,221
< Gold Earned >
12,730
2.03
< Towers >
2.41
0.01
< Baron Takedowns >
0.15
2,549
< Total Healing >
6,966
11,305
< Experience >
12,399
50
< Vision Score >
20
22
< Wards Placed >
8
234
< Time Dealing CC >
189

How to Counter Kalista with Karma in LoL

The stats shown on this page underscore some valuable Karma vs. Kalista counter stats that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kalista. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.

Karma often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Kalista. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.

Differences between Karma and Kalista

Damage Types Compared

Karma
Kalista
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Karma
Kalista

Who is Better, Karma or Kalista?

Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Karma usually wins when trying to fight Kalista, with a 51.5% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a good counter to Kalista.

While Karma does have a higher winrate than Kalista, when facing one another, Karma also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Kalista.

Moreover, Karma has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.

While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karma vs Kalista matchups, Karma is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.

Karma is a decent counter to Kalista. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Kalista.

Additional Information for Karma Players

How We Calculated Our Karma vs Kalista Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Kalista as Karma, we analyzed 1,005 matchups from recent LoL games. We use rigorous data cleaning and processing methods to ensure that our counter stats are of the highest quality. You can rest assured that the recommended build to counter Kalista as Karma comes from real data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view the most relevant stats and items to your rank.

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Further Insights to Win this Matchup

To truly master Karma to counter Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.

Karma typically picks up less CS relative to Kalista. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.

The most crucial items to use in your Karma versus Kalista build consist of Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Kalista than with most other common item sets. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 51.5% when countering Kalista with this counter build.

To have the best chance of defeating Kalista as Karma, Karma players should take 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 players picked for Karma vs Kalista counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.5% winrate overall.

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