Karma vs Vi
How to Beat Vi as Karma
based on 2,889 Karma vs Vi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Vi Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Vi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vi as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Vi
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 Vi
Vi cannot be stopped while using her ult. Remember to save your displacement effects until after she's done charging.
A fully charged Vault breaker deals double damage. If you see Vi start to charge you should back off or try to dodge it.
Vi will shred your Armor and gain Attack Speed if she manages to hit you three times in a row. Try not to engage in extended brawls with her.
Karma vs Vi Counter Stats
How to Counter Vi with Karma in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some strategic Karma against Vi matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences between this set of champions. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vi’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Vi. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Karma often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she takes less damage than Vi. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Vi
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Who is Better, Karma or Vi?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karma usually loses when facing off against Vi, with a 46.7% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a bad counter to Vi.
While Karma does have a lower win rate than Vi, when facing one another, Karma also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Karma into Vi.
Moreover, Karma also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vi. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Vi matchups, Vi is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Karma is a bad counter for Vi. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Vi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Karma in order to counter Vi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma on average gets more CS relative to Vi. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Karma versus Vi build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma included at least these three items in her build, she did much better countering Vi than with many other typical builds. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 46.7% battling Vi with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Vi as Karma, Karma players should take the Summon Aery, 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 Vi counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.7% win rate overall.
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