Karma vs Nasus
How to Beat Nasus as Karma
based on 2,842 Karma vs Nasus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Nasus Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Nasus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nasus as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Nasus
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 Nasus
Nasus is prone to being kited. Try not to engage him at full Health.
Max rank Wither is a very effective counter to Attack Damage characters, so try to avoid getting caught alone by it.
While transformed by his ultimate, Nasus is stronger than most champions in the League. Engage him only if you have a clear advantage.
Karma vs Nasus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nasus with Karma in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some critical Karma against Nasus matchup statistics that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nasus’s ratio of NaN, showing that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Nasus. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Karma normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives less damage than Nasus. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Nasus
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Who is Better, Karma or Nasus?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karma usually loses when playing against Nasus, with a 46.4% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a poor counter for Nasus.
While Karma does have a lower winrate than Nasus, when facing one another, Karma also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Karma into Nasus.
Additionally, Karma also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nasus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Nasus matchups, Nasus is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Karma is a terribly counter for Nasus. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Nasus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Karma in order to counter Nasus during both the lane 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 listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma typically racks up less CS relative to Nasus. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs 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 exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Karma versus Nasus build consist of Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Karma used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs. Nasus than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 46.4% battling Nasus with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Nasus as Karma, Karma players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Karma vs Nasus matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.4% winrate overall.
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