Karma vs Thresh
How to Beat Thresh as Karma
based on 3,947 Karma vs Thresh matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Thresh Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Thresh as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Thresh
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 Thresh
Intentionally breaking a wall of The Box can allow a vulnerable ally to escape unscathed.
Thresh's Death Sentence has a long cast time. Watch for the cast to begin to take evasive actions.
Thresh relies on collecting souls for a portion of his defense and damage. Try punishing him when he moves to collect them.
Karma vs Thresh Counter Stats
How to Counter Thresh with Karma in LoL
The stats shown here show several influential Karma against Thresh counter statistics that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Thresh’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Thresh..
Karma typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Thresh. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Thresh
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Who is Better, Karma or Thresh?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when playing against Thresh, with a 49.2% win rate. As a result, Karma makes an ok counter to Thresh.
While Karma does have a lower winrate compared to Thresh, when facing one another, Karma also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Thresh.
Moreover, Karma also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Thresh. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Thresh matchups, Thresh is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter to Thresh. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Thresh.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Karma in order to counter Thresh during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep 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 grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma most often accumulates more CS compared to Thresh. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Karma versus Thresh build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Cosmic Drive. When Karma included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Thresh than with most other common builds. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 49.2% battling Thresh with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Thresh as Karma, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Karma vs Thresh LoL games, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
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