Karma vs Tristana
How to Beat Tristana as Karma
based on 3,132 Karma vs Tristana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Tristana Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Tristana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tristana as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Tristana
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 Tristana
Stand away from your creeps in a lane to take less collateral damage from Explosive Charge.
If you see Tristana activate Rapid Fire in a fight, stun her and try to back off until the spell dissipates.
Karma vs Tristana Counter Stats
How to Counter Tristana with Karma in LoL
The stats provided here feature several critical Karma vs. Tristana matchup statistics that may help you figure out the distinctions between the two. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tristana’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Tristana. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Karma usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Tristana. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Tristana
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Who is Better, Karma or Tristana?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Tristana, with a 50.6% win rate. Thus, Karma makes an ok counter to Tristana.
While Karma does have a higher winrate compared to Tristana, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Karma into Tristana.
Moreover, Karma also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Tristana. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Tristana matchups, Karma is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Karma is a decent counter to Tristana. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Tristana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma to counter Tristana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma typically racks up less CS relative to Tristana. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Karma versus Tristana build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better countering Tristana than with many other common item sets. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 50.6% when playing against Tristana with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Tristana as Karma, Karma players 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 sets players picked for Karma vs Tristana fights, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Tristana as Karma are presented for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.