Karma vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Karma
based on 2,968 Karma vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Rakan
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 Rakan
Champions with crowd control that can be applied quickly excel against Rakan.
Catching Rakan with no allies around severely inhibits his mobility. Try to find him alone.
Rakan's movement abilities forecast their destination. Try to use this to your advantage.
Karma vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some significant Karma versus Rakan matchup stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Rakan..
Karma normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Rakan
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Who is Better, Karma or Rakan?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Karma usually loses when playing against Rakan, with a 45.0% win rate. Therefore, Karma makes a poor counter for Rakan.
While Karma does have a much lower win rate compared to Rakan, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Karma into Rakan.
Moreover, Karma also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Karma is a bad counter to Rakan. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Rakan.
Other Champion Matchups Against Karma
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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 Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma most often picks up more CS compared to Rakan. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale 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 a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Karma versus Rakan build include Ardent Censer, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better against Rakan than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 45.0% when playing against Rakan with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Rakan as Karma, you 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 players chose for Karma vs Rakan battles, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.0% winrate overall.
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