Karma vs Yasuo
How to Beat Yasuo as Karma
based on 7,637 Karma vs Yasuo matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Yasuo Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Yasuo as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Yasuo
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
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.
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.
Advice to Win Against Yasuo
Yasuo's shield from Resolve lasts only 2 seconds. Dealing damage to him will trigger it. Wait it out, then engage.
Steel Tempest is very narrow. Dodge laterally if possible.
Yasuo is at his weakest just after he has launched a whirlwind. Engage at that point.
When Yasuo lands two Steel Tempests in a row, his next will fire a tornado. Watch and listen for the associated sound to prepare to dodge.
Karma vs Yasuo Counter Stats
How to Counter Yasuo with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some vital Karma versus Yasuo matchup statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Yasuo’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Yasuo. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Karma usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives less damage than Yasuo. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Yasuo
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Who is Better, Karma or Yasuo?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Yasuo, with a 49.3% win rate. Therefore, Karma makes an ok counter for Yasuo.
While Karma does have a lower winrate compared to Yasuo, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Yasuo.
Furthermore, Karma also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yasuo. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Yasuo matchups, Yasuo is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter for Yasuo. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Karma against Yasuo.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Karma to counter Yasuo during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma usually picks up a lot less CS relative to Yasuo. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Karma versus Yasuo build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shard of True Ice. When Karma included at least these three items in her build, she did much better countering Yasuo than with most other common builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 49.3% battling Yasuo with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating Yasuo as Karma, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Karma vs Yasuo counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.3% win rate overall.
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