Karma vs Malphite
How to Beat Malphite as Karma
based on 3,793 Karma vs Malphite matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Malphite Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malphite as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Malphite
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 Malphite
If you're a physical damage character stay behind your allies when fighting Malphite. Ground Slam can significantly reduce your damage output.
Malphite is one of a couple tanks who are capable of jungling. Watch out if he gets Smite.
Karma vs Malphite Counter Stats
How to Counter Malphite with Karma in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several valuable Karma against Malphite matchup stats that may help us interpret the distinctions between these two champs. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Malphite’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Malphite. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Karma typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Malphite. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Malphite
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Who is Better, Karma or Malphite?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually loses when taking on Malphite, with a 48.4% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a bad counter to Malphite.
While Karma does have a lower win rate than Malphite, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Karma into Malphite.
Furthermore, Karma also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malphite. 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 in League of Legends, in Karma vs Malphite matchups, Malphite is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter for Malphite. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Malphite.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Karma in order to counter Malphite during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma typically picks up less CS relative to Malphite. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Karma versus Malphite build consist of Ardent Censer, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when facing Malphite than with most other common item sets. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 48.4% when countering Malphite with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Malphite as Karma, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Karma vs Malphite fights, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.4% winrate overall.
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