Karma vs Nunu & Willump
How to Beat Nunu & Willump as Karma
based on 2,287 Karma vs Nunu & Willump matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Nunu & Willump Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nunu & Willump as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Nunu & Willump
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 Nunu & Willump
Interrupting the charge up on Absolute Zero will lower the amount of damage your team takes.
Using Summoner Flash is a surefire way to escape Absolute Zero.
Biggest Snowball Ever moves very fast but cannot turn as quickly, so don't try to escape it by running away in a straight line. Instead, make sudden, sharp turns.
Karma vs Nunu & Willump Counter Stats
How to Counter Nunu & Willump with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some critical Karma vs. Nunu & Willump matchup stats that can help us realize the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nunu & Willump’s ratio of NaN, showing that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Nunu & Willump..
Karma usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Nunu & Willump. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Nunu & Willump
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Who is Better, Karma or Nunu & Willump?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when facing off against Nunu & Willump, with a 50.8% win rate. Thus, Karma makes an ok counter to Nunu & Willump.
While Karma does have a higher win rate compared to Nunu & Willump, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Nunu & Willump.
Additionally, Karma also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nunu & Willump. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Nunu & Willump matchups, Karma is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Karma is a decent counter for Nunu & Willump. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Nunu & Willump.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma to counter Nunu & Willump during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma on average accumulates more CS as Nunu & Willump. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Karma versus Nunu & Willump build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma included at least these three items in her build, she did much better versus Nunu & Willump than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 50.8% when countering Nunu & Willump with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Nunu & Willump as Karma, Karma players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Karma vs Nunu & Willump counterpicks, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.8% winrate overall.
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