Karma vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Karma
based on 4,875 Karma vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Maokai
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 Maokai
The cooldown on Maokai's self healing is heavily gated on how many time you hit him with spells. Careful about wasting abilities on him.
Maokai will avoid taking damage while he's using Twisted Advance, so don't waste your spells.
Saplings will chase the first enemy that gets too close, but detonate after a few seconds or if they collide with other enemies. Be especially careful around brush sapling, as they are much more dangerous.
Karma vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some important Karma vs. Maokai counter statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between this set of champs. For instance, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Maokai..
Karma usually has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Maokai. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Maokai
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Who is Better, Karma or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Karma usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 46.0% win rate. Therefore, Karma makes a poor counter to Maokai.
While Karma does have a lower winrate than Maokai, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Karma into Maokai.
Moreover, Karma also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Karma is a trash counter for Maokai. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karma in order to counter Maokai during both the early game 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 tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma most often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Maokai. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Karma versus Maokai build include Malignance, Cryptbloom, and Cosmic Drive. When Karma incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs. Maokai than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 46.0% battling Maokai with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Maokai as Karma, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Karma vs Maokai counter picks, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.0% winrate overall.
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