Karma vs Sivir
How to Beat Sivir as Karma
based on 1,450 Karma vs Sivir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Sivir Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Sivir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sivir as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Sivir
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 Sivir
When laning against Sivir, it is possible to throw off the timing of her Spell Shield by faking an advance, then backing off.
Sivir is a powerful pushing champion, so leaving her unattended in a lane for too long will often result in your turrets being destroyed.
Boomerang Blade costs a lot of mana to cast, so dodging it sets Sivir back. If it hits you on the way out, avoid its path on the way back.
Karma vs Sivir Counter Stats
How to Counter Sivir with Karma in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some critical Karma vs. Sivir matchup statistics that can help us distinguish the distinctions between the two. For instance, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Sivir’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Sivir. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Karma usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Sivir. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Sivir
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Who is Better, Karma or Sivir?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Sivir, with a 50.1% win rate. Therefore, Karma makes an ok counter to Sivir.
While Karma does have a higher winrate than Sivir, when facing one another, Karma also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Sivir.
Furthermore, Karma has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sivir. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Sivir matchups, Karma is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Karma is a decent counter for Sivir. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Sivir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Karma to counter Sivir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma often gets less CS compared to Sivir. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Karma versus Sivir build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Karma incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better versus Sivir than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 50.1% when countering Sivir with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Sivir 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 sets players used for Karma vs Sivir counter picks, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.1% win rate overall.
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