Karma vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Karma
based on 908 Karma vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Olaf
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 Olaf
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.
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.
Karma vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Karma in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several important Karma against Olaf matchup statistics that can help you grasp the differences between the pair. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Olaf’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Olaf. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Karma typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Olaf. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able 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 champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Karma usually loses when trying to fight Olaf, with a 47.9% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a bad counter for Olaf.
While Karma does have a lower winrate compared to Olaf, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Karma into Olaf.
Additionally, Karma also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Olaf. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion 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 allied champions during team fights.
Karma is a garbage counter to Olaf. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Karma against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Karma in order to counter Olaf during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma often picks up less CS compared to Olaf. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions 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 surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Karma versus Olaf build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when facing Olaf than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 47.9% battling Olaf with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Olaf as Karma, Karma players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Karma vs Olaf matchups, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.9% winrate overall.
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