Karma vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Karma
based on 3,113 Karma vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Malzahar
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 Malzahar
Malzahar is especially dangerous when he has built up his Void Swarm.
When Malzahar hits a spell on enemies affected by Malefic Visions, the Visions are refreshed.
Avoid minion waves that have been affected by Malefic Visions. You never know when they may die and pass the Visions onto you.
Karma vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several strategic Karma versus Malzahar matchup stats that can help us grasp the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Malzahar’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Malzahar. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Karma often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Malzahar. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Karma or Malzahar?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karma usually loses when playing against Malzahar, with a 47.8% win rate. As a result, Karma makes a bad counter for Malzahar.
While Karma does have a lower win rate compared to Malzahar, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult character to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Karma into Malzahar.
Furthermore, Karma also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar 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 teamfights.
Karma is a garbage counter to Malzahar. Focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma in order to counter Malzahar 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 pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma most often racks up a lot less CS compared to Malzahar. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, 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 do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Karma versus Malzahar build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Cosmic Drive. When Karma used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Malzahar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 47.8% when countering Malzahar with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Malzahar 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. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Karma vs Malzahar face-offs, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Malzahar as Karma are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.