Karma vs Yasuo
How to Beat Yasuo as Karma
based on 7,105 Karma vs Yasuo matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Yasuo Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Yasuo Counter Build
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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.
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 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 stats provided here feature some valuable Karma versus Yasuo counter statistics that may help us figure out the differences between these two champs. For instance, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yasuo’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Yasuo. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Karma often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Yasuo. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Yasuo
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Who is Better, Karma or Yasuo?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Karma usually loses when trying to fight Yasuo, with a 46.5% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a poor counter to Yasuo.
While Karma does have a lower win rate compared to Yasuo, when facing one another, Karma also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Karma into Yasuo.
Additionally, Karma has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yasuo. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Yasuo matchups, Yasuo is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Karma is a terribly counter to Yasuo. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income 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
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 continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to 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 typically gets less CS compared to Yasuo. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Karma versus Yasuo build include Ardent Censer, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when facing Yasuo than with most other common builds. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 46.5% when countering Yasuo with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Yasuo as Karma, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Karma vs Yasuo clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.5% win rate overall.
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