Karma vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as Karma
based on 4,131 Karma vs Varus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Varus Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Varus as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Varus
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 Varus
When he gets a kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains Attack Speed and is much more dangerous.
You'll get bound in place if a tendril from Varus' ultimate, Chain of Corruption, reaches you. You can cause the tendril to die however by running far enough away from it.
If you are affected by Blight, Varus' abilities will deal extra damage to you.
Karma vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with Karma in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some influential Karma vs. Varus matchup stats that can help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Varus’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Varus. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Karma typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Varus. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Karma or Varus?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when playing against Varus, with a 49.7% win rate. As a result, Karma makes an ok counter for Varus.
While Karma does have a lower win rate than Varus, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Varus.
Moreover, Karma also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Varus. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karma vs Varus matchups, Varus is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter for Varus. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Karma against Varus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karma to counter Varus during both the laning 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 mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma often picks up less CS compared to Varus. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Karma versus Varus build consist of Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when facing Varus than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 49.7% when playing against Varus with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Varus 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. Of all the runes players used for Karma vs Varus fights, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.7% win rate overall.
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