Karma vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Karma
based on 696 Karma vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Nidalee
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 Nidalee
Nidalee's Javelin Toss deals more damage the farther she is. If she is far away, it's imperative to dodge it.
Nidalee's Takedown deals extreme damage to Hunted targets, but she has to get close to use it. Save your crowd control or defensive abilities for when she goes in for the kill.
Nidalee's Hunt debuff is only applied with Javelin Toss and Bushwhack. Avoiding being hit by these abilities will impair her ability to deal follow-up damage.
Karma vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Karma in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some critical Karma against Nidalee matchup statistics that may help you interpret the differences between the two. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nidalee’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Nidalee. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Karma typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Nidalee. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Karma or Nidalee?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Karma usually wins when playing against Nidalee, with a 54.0% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a great counter to Nidalee.
While Karma does have a much higher win rate compared to Nidalee, when facing one another, Karma also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champion to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Karma into Nidalee.
Furthermore, Karma also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nidalee. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karma vs Nidalee matchups, Karma is the better champ with a noticably higher 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 great counter to Nidalee. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Karma to counter Nidalee during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma most often gets more CS compared to Nidalee. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. 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, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Karma versus Nidalee build consist of Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better versus Nidalee than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 54.0% when countering Nidalee with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Nidalee as Karma, Karma players 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 combinations players used for Karma vs Nidalee battles, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 54.0% win rate overall.
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