Karma vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Karma
based on 354 Karma vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Skarner
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 Skarner
Skarner can't harm you very much outside of short range, so stay away from him!
Skarner is especially dangerous when inside Crystal Spire zones his team controls. Try to capture them ahead of time if a fight may break out around them.
Skarner's Move Speed is increased as long as his shield, Crystalline Exoskeleton, persists. Attack him to lower his speed.
Karma vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Karma in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some critical Karma vs. Skarner matchup stats that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Skarner’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Skarner..
Karma normally has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Skarner. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Skarner
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Who is Better, Karma or Skarner?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Karma usually wins when trying to fight Skarner, with a 51.1% win rate. Therefore, Karma makes a good counter for Skarner.
While Karma does have a higher winrate than Skarner, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Skarner.
Additionally, Karma has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Skarner. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Skarner matchups, Karma is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Karma is a decent counter to Skarner. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Karma against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karma in order to counter Skarner during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma on average gets a similar amount of CS as Skarner. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Karma versus Skarner build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Horizon Focus. When Karma combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Skarner than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 51.1% battling Skarner with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Skarner as Karma, Karma players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Karma vs Skarner counter picks, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.1% win rate overall.
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