Karma vs Zac
How to Beat Zac as Karma
based on 2,633 Karma vs Zac matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Zac Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Zac Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zac as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Zac
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 Zac
Kill all of Zac's bloblets when he splits apart to stop him from reforming.
Silences, stuns, roots and knockups will all interrupt Zac when he is charging Elastic Slingshot.
Zac heals from the goo that separates from him. You can crush the goo pieces by stepping on them.
Karma vs Zac Counter Stats
How to Counter Zac with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several important Karma against Zac counter statistics that can help you realize the differences between the two. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zac’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Zac..
Karma usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes less damage than Zac. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Zac
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Who is Better, Karma or Zac?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Karma usually loses when facing off against Zac, with a 47.3% win rate. Therefore, Karma makes a bad counter for Zac.
While Karma does have a lower win rate than Zac, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Karma into Zac.
Additionally, Karma also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zac. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Zac matchups, Zac is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Karma is a terribly counter for Zac. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Zac.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Karma to counter Zac during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma on average gets a similar amount of CS as Zac. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Karma versus Zac build include Malignance, Morellonomicon, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Karma incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Zac than with many other typical builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 47.3% when countering Zac with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of beating Zac as Karma, Karma players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Karma vs Zac face-offs, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.3% winrate overall.
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