Karma vs Vladimir
How to Beat Vladimir as Karma
based on 3,196 Karma vs Vladimir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Vladimir Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Vladimir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vladimir as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Vladimir
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 Vladimir
Items that counter Health stacking, such as Liandry's Torment and Blade of the Ruined King, are very effective against Vladimir.
Making Vladimir use Sanguine Pool at the start of a fight will maximize the Health cost of the ability to him.
Try to take Vladimir down before Hemoplague detonates, as it will heal him for each afflicted enemy Champion.
Karma vs Vladimir Counter Stats
How to Counter Vladimir with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several strategic Karma against Vladimir matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences between the two. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vladimir’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Vladimir. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Karma usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives less damage than Vladimir. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Vladimir
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Who is Better, Karma or Vladimir?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when playing against Vladimir, with a 50.5% win rate. Therefore, Karma makes an ok counter for Vladimir.
While Karma does have a higher win rate compared to Vladimir, when facing one another, Karma also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Vladimir.
Additionally, Karma also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vladimir. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Vladimir matchups, Karma is the better champion with a similar 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 decent counter to Vladimir. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Vladimir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karma to counter Vladimir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma often gets less CS relative to Vladimir. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Karma versus Vladimir 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 versus Vladimir than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 50.5% battling Vladimir with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Vladimir 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 combinations players picked for Karma vs Vladimir fights, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.5% winrate overall.
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