Karma vs Poppy
How to Beat Poppy as Karma
based on 1,578 Karma vs Poppy matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Poppy Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Poppy as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Poppy
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 Poppy
Poppy can stop nearby enemies from dashing with Steadfast Presence.
When Poppy starts to spin her hammer, she is charging Keeper's Verdict.
You can step on Poppy's shield to deny it from her.
Karma vs Poppy Counter Stats
How to Counter Poppy with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several valuable Karma against Poppy matchup stats that can help us figure out the distinctions between the two. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Poppy’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Poppy. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Karma normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Poppy. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Poppy
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Who is Better, Karma or Poppy?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when playing against Poppy, with a 49.2% win rate. As a result, Karma makes an ok counter to Poppy.
While Karma does have a lower win rate compared to Poppy, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Poppy.
Moreover, Karma also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Poppy. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Poppy matchups, Poppy is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter for Poppy. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Karma against Poppy.
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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 Poppy during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Poppy. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Karma versus Poppy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Karma included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better versus Poppy than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 49.2% when countering Poppy with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Poppy as Karma, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Karma vs Poppy counters, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.2% winrate overall.
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