Karma vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Karma
based on 1,362 Karma vs Ziggs matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Ziggs as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Ziggs
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 Ziggs
Many of Ziggs' abilities have long cooldowns. Try catching him just after he's used his abilities.
Don't step on Ziggs' mines! They'll slow you and make it much easier for him to hit you with his other abiltiies.
Ziggs' ultimate, Mega Inferno Bomb, deals more damage in the center of the explosion.
Karma vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Karma in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some critical Karma against Ziggs matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ziggs’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Ziggs. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Karma normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Ziggs. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Ziggs
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Who is Better, Karma or Ziggs?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually wins when facing off against Ziggs, with a 51.7% win rate. As a result, Karma makes a good counter for Ziggs.
While Karma does have a higher win rate than Ziggs, when facing one another, Karma also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to learn. You should be careful when picking Karma into Ziggs.
Additionally, Karma has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ziggs. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karma vs Ziggs matchups, Karma is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Karma is a decent counter to Ziggs. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Ziggs.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma to counter Ziggs during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma most often picks up less CS compared to Ziggs. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Karma versus Ziggs build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma included at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better against Ziggs than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 51.7% when countering Ziggs with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Ziggs 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. Out of all the rune builds players used for Karma vs Ziggs battles, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.7% winrate overall.
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