Karma vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Karma
based on 905 Karma vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Taric
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 Taric
Taric reduces his spell cooldowns by basic attacking enemies with Bravado. Try to kite him in teamfights and punish him for approaching the minion wave in lane.
Taric's ultimate, Cosmic Radiance, has a long delay before its effect. Try to quickly assess whether to disengage the fight or attempt to kill his allies before it goes off.
Karma vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some important Karma versus Taric counter statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taric’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Taric..
Karma often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes less damage than Taric. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Taric
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Who is Better, Karma or Taric?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Karma usually loses when playing against Taric, with a 45.7% win rate. As a result, Karma makes a bad counter for Taric.
While Karma does have a much lower win rate compared to Taric, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Karma into Taric.
Moreover, Karma has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taric. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Karma is a bad counter to Taric. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Karma in order to counter Taric during both the early game 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 mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma on average picks up more CS as Taric. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Karma versus Taric build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better countering Taric than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 45.7% battling Taric with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Taric 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. Of all the rune builds players used for Karma vs Taric counterpicks, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.7% winrate overall.
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