Karma vs Samira
How to Beat Samira as Karma
based on 4,392 Karma vs Samira matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Samira Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Samira Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Samira as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Samira
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.
Karma vs Samira Counter Stats
How to Counter Samira with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several strategic Karma against Samira matchup stats that may help you explain the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Samira’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Samira. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Karma often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives less damage than Samira. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Samira
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Who is Better, Karma or Samira?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Samira, with a 49.2% win rate. Thus, Karma makes an ok counter to Samira.
While Karma does have a lower win rate than Samira, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Karma into Samira.
Additionally, Karma has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Samira. 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 Samira matchups, Samira is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter to Samira. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Samira.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Karma in order to counter Samira during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma often picks up less CS as Samira. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Karma versus Samira build include Dream Maker, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Samira than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 49.2% when countering Samira with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating Samira as Karma, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Karma vs Samira matchups, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
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