Karma vs Zeri
How to Beat Zeri as Karma
based on 987 Karma vs Zeri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Zeri Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Zeri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zeri as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Zeri
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.
Karma vs Zeri Counter Stats
How to Counter Zeri with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some valuable Karma vs. Zeri counter stats that may help you realize the differences between the pair. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zeri’s ratio of NaN, showing that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Zeri. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Karma often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes less damage than Zeri. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Zeri
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Who is Better, Karma or Zeri?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually wins when playing against Zeri, with a 54.1% win rate. Therefore, Karma makes a great counter to Zeri.
While Karma does have a much higher win rate than Zeri, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Karma into Zeri.
Furthermore, Karma has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zeri. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Zeri matchups, Karma is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Karma is a great counter to Zeri. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Zeri.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Karma in order to counter Zeri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma often gets less CS compared to Zeri. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Karma versus Zeri build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Zeri than with most other common builds. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 54.1% when countering Zeri with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Zeri as Karma, Karma players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Karma vs Zeri LoL games, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 54.1% win rate overall.
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