Karma vs Volibear
How to Beat Volibear as Karma
based on 2,013 Karma vs Volibear matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Volibear Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Volibear Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Volibear as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Volibear
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.
Karma vs Volibear Counter Stats
How to Counter Volibear with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some strategic Karma versus Volibear matchup stats that may help us understand the differences between these two champions. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Volibear’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Volibear. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Karma usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes less damage than Volibear. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Volibear
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Who is Better, Karma or Volibear?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually wins when facing off against Volibear, with a 51.4% win rate. As a result, Karma makes a good counter for Volibear.
While Karma does have a higher winrate than Volibear, when facing one another, Karma also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Volibear.
Moreover, Karma also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Volibear. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Volibear matchups, Karma is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Karma is a decent counter for Volibear. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Volibear.
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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 Volibear during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma most often picks up less CS compared to Volibear. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Karma versus Volibear build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better against Volibear than with most other common builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 51.4% when playing against Volibear with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Volibear as Karma, you should equip 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 that we analyzed for Karma vs Volibear face-offs, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.4% winrate overall.
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