Karma vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Karma
based on 2,149 Karma vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yorick as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Yorick
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 Yorick
You can cast Smite on Mist Walkers and the Maiden of the Mist to damage or kill them.
You can attack Dark Procession to break the wall down.
Try to thin out Yorick's minions before you engage him, Mist Walkers will die from a basic attack or a single target spell.
Karma vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Karma in LoL
The stats shown here show several strategic Karma versus Yorick counter stats that may help us interpret the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yorick’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Yorick. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Karma usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes less damage than Yorick. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Yorick
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Who is Better, Karma or Yorick?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Karma usually loses when playing against Yorick, with a 47.9% win rate. Therefore, Karma makes a poor counter for Yorick.
While Karma does have a lower winrate than Yorick, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Karma into Yorick.
Additionally, Karma has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yorick. 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 Yorick matchups, Yorick is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Karma is a garbage counter for Yorick. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Karma against Yorick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karma in order to counter Yorick during both the early game 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 suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma typically picks up less CS relative to Yorick. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, 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, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Karma versus Yorick build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Dream Maker. When Karma bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs. Yorick than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 47.9% when countering Yorick with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating Yorick as Karma, Karma players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Karma vs Yorick face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.9% winrate overall.
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