Karma vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Karma
based on 2,196 Karma vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz
Vel'Koz has fairly low mobility and is vulnerable to ganks.
Vel'Koz is very dangerous if left alone in a fight. Try to focus him down early.
Life Form Disintegration Ray can be interrupted by stuns, silences and knockups.
Karma vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Karma in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some critical Karma versus Vel'Koz counter stats that may help us grasp the distinctions between the two. For instance, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Vel'Koz..
Karma often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Vel'Koz. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Karma or Vel'Koz?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Karma usually loses when playing against Vel'Koz, with a 47.7% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a bad counter for Vel'Koz.
While Karma does have a lower win rate compared to Vel'Koz, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Karma into Vel'Koz.
Furthermore, Karma has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Vel'Koz matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Karma is a bad counter to Vel'Koz. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Karma in order to counter Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Vel'Koz. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Karma versus Vel'Koz build include Ardent Censer, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs Vel'Koz than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 47.7% when playing against Vel'Koz with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of beating Vel'Koz as Karma, you should take 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 Vel'Koz LoL games, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.7% win rate overall.
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