Karma vs Nami
How to Beat Nami as Karma
based on 3,230 Karma vs Nami matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Nami Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nami as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Nami
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 Nami
Aqua Prison is a very powerful ability with a long cooldown, take advantage of the situation if Nami misses this ability.
Tidal Wave has a very long range but travels slowly, be aware of when it is coming your way as you can move out of its path.
Try to avoid fighting an opponent affected by Tidecaller's Blessing, it lasts a short duration so waiting it out can help you greatly.
Karma vs Nami Counter Stats
How to Counter Nami with Karma in LoL
The stats provided here feature several critical Karma versus Nami matchup stats that may help you figure out the distinctions between the pair. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nami’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Nami..
Karma usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Nami. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Nami
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Who is Better, Karma or Nami?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when playing against Nami, with a 50.0% win rate. Thus, Karma makes an ok counter for Nami.
While Karma does have a higher win rate than Nami, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Karma into Nami.
Moreover, Karma also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nami. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Nami matchups, Nami is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Karma is a decent counter to Nami. Focus your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Karma against Nami.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Karma to counter Nami during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma most often picks up more CS relative to Nami. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Karma versus Nami build include 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 versus Nami than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when countering Nami with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Nami as Karma, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Karma vs Nami face-offs, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.0% winrate overall.
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