Karma vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Karma
based on 1,566 Karma vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Zyra
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.
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.
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Advice to Win Against Zyra
Zyra's seeds can be destroyed by stepping on them. If she tries to grow them as you do, dodge back at the last moment.
Moving closer to Zyra can be a smart move if she places plants too far away from herself.
Moving the fight to a different area will deprive Zyra of accumulated seeds.
Seeds placed by Zyra's W are larger, a different color, and grant a small amount of vision to her team.
Plants take fixed damage from attacks and effects, similar to wards. They also expire quickly on their own.
Karma vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Karma in LoL
The stats shown here show some important Karma against Zyra matchup stats that may help you understand the distinctions between this set of champs. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Zyra..
Karma normally has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Zyra. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Zyra
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Who is Better, Karma or Zyra?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Karma usually loses when taking on Zyra, with a 47.2% win rate. As a result, Karma makes a bad counter for Zyra.
While Karma does have a lower win rate than Zyra, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Karma into Zyra.
Moreover, Karma has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zyra. 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 one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karma vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Karma is a trash counter for Zyra. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Karma against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Karma in order to counter Zyra during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Zyra. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Karma versus Zyra build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Redemption, and Shard of True Ice. When Karma used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Zyra than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 47.2% when playing against Zyra with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Zyra as Karma, Karma players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Karma vs Zyra face-offs, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.2% winrate overall.
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