Karma vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Karma
based on 3,878 Karma vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Zed
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 Zed
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
Zed receives bonus effect from Attack Damage items he purchases, so Armor is super effective against him.
After Zed uses his Living Shadow, he is at his most vulnerable as his damage, slow, and mobility are both dependent upon it.
Karma vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Karma in LoL
The stats provided here show several vital Karma versus Zed matchup statistics that may help you realize the differences between the pair. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zed’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Zed. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Karma often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Zed. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Zed
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Who is Better, Karma or Zed?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when facing off against Zed, with a 50.9% win rate. As a result, Karma makes an ok counter for Zed.
While Karma does have a higher winrate compared to Zed, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Zed.
Moreover, Karma also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zed. 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 Zed matchups, Karma is the better champ with a similar 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 decent counter for Zed. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Karma against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Karma to counter Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma on average picks up less CS as Zed. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Karma versus Zed build include Morellonomicon, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs. Zed than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 50.9% when playing against Zed with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Zed as Karma, you 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 that we analyzed for Karma vs Zed counters, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.9% winrate overall.
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