Karma vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Karma
based on 2,439 Karma vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Tahm Kench
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 Tahm Kench
When you see Tahm Kench use the shield from Thick Skin, remember that he just opted out of a good deal of healing. He will also not accumulate new gray health until Thick Skin comes off cooldown. Use this to your advantage!
Watch out for Kench's Abyssal Dive - you can cancel it's channel with immobilizing crowd control effects.
Karma vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Karma in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several strategic Karma against Tahm Kench counter statistics that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Tahm Kench..
Karma typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Karma or Tahm Kench?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually loses when facing off against Tahm Kench, with a 45.8% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a bad counter to Tahm Kench.
While Karma does have a much lower winrate than Tahm Kench, when facing one another, Karma also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Karma into Tahm Kench.
Furthermore, Karma also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Karma is a trash counter to Tahm Kench. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Tahm Kench.
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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 Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma usually accumulates less CS compared to Tahm Kench. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Karma versus Tahm Kench build consist of Ardent Censer, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better against Tahm Kench than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 45.8% when playing against Tahm Kench with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Tahm Kench as Karma, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Karma vs Tahm Kench LoL games, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.8% win rate overall.
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