Karma vs Zoe
How to Beat Zoe as Karma
based on 1,334 Karma vs Zoe matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Zoe Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Zoe Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zoe as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Zoe
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 Zoe
Zoe's Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown.
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Stop Zoe from hiding in fog of war to prevent her from setting the spell up.
Zoe must return to her starting point after casting Portal Jump, making her vulnerable to a counterattack.
Karma vs Zoe Counter Stats
How to Counter Zoe with Karma in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several critical Karma against Zoe matchup statistics that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zoe’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Zoe. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Karma normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Zoe. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Zoe
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Who is Better, Karma or Zoe?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Karma usually wins when trying to fight Zoe, with a 52.8% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a good counter to Zoe.
While Karma does have a higher win rate compared to Zoe, when facing one another, Karma also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Karma into Zoe.
Furthermore, Karma also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zoe. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing 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 Zoe matchups, Karma is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Karma is an above average counter to Zoe. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Zoe.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Karma to counter Zoe during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma often picks up less CS relative to Zoe. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, 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 situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Karma versus Zoe build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Zoe than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 52.8% when playing against Zoe with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Zoe 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 we have analyed for Karma vs Zoe face-offs, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.8% win rate overall.
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