Karma vs Ryze
How to Beat Ryze as Karma
based on 950 Karma vs Ryze matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Ryze Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ryze as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Ryze
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 Ryze
Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
Karma vs Ryze Counter Stats
How to Counter Ryze with Karma in LoL
The stats provided here show some vital Karma versus Ryze matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ryze’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Ryze. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Karma typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Ryze. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Ryze
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Who is Better, Karma or Ryze?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Karma usually loses when playing against Ryze, with a 47.2% win rate. Therefore, Karma makes a bad counter for Ryze.
While Karma does have a lower win rate compared to Ryze, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Karma into Ryze.
Additionally, Karma also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ryze. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Ryze matchups, Ryze is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Karma is a garbage counter for Ryze. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Karma against Ryze.
Other Champion Matchups Against Karma
Additional Information for Karma Players
How We Calculated Our Karma vs Ryze Build and Stats
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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 Ryze 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 pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma often gets less CS as Ryze. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Karma versus Ryze build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when facing Ryze than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 47.2% when countering Ryze with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Ryze 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. Of all the rune builds players picked for Karma vs Ryze counterpicks, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.2% win rate overall.
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