Karma vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Karma
based on 1,854 Karma vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Olaf Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Olaf
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.
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.
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Advice to Win Against Olaf
Olaf becomes more dangerous the lower life he is. Save your disables to finish him off.
Preventing Olaf from reaching his axe will minimize the amount of harassment he can cause in the laning phase.
Olaf has reduced defenses from damage during Ragnarok, despite being immune to disables. If you can't escape from Olaf during Ragnarok, try focusing your damage on him with your teammates.
Karma vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several critical Karma versus Olaf matchup stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Olaf’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Olaf. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Karma normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Olaf. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but 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 Olaf
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Who is Better, Karma or Olaf?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karma usually loses when facing off against Olaf, with a 48.7% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a poor counter to Olaf.
While Karma does have a lower winrate than Olaf, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Karma into Olaf.
Furthermore, Karma has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Olaf. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Olaf matchups, Olaf is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter for Olaf. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karma to counter Olaf during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma most often racks up a lot less CS compared to Olaf. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Karma versus Olaf build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Shard of True Ice. When Karma bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better against Olaf than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 48.7% battling Olaf with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Olaf 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. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Karma vs Olaf LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.7% win rate overall.
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