Karma vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Karma
based on 4,606 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
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 Zyra
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.
Plants take fixed damage from attacks and effects, similar to wards. They also expire quickly on their own.
Seeds placed by Zyra's W are larger, a different color, and grant a small amount of vision to her team.
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.
Karma vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Karma in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some vital Karma against Zyra counter statistics that may help us appreciate the differences between this set of champions. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zyra’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Zyra..
Karma typically has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Zyra. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Zyra
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Who is Better, Karma or Zyra?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually loses when facing off against Zyra, with a 46.3% win rate. Therefore, Karma makes a bad counter to Zyra.
While Karma does have a lower winrate compared to Zyra, when facing one another, Karma also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Karma into Zyra.
Additionally, Karma has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zyra. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karma vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Karma is a bad counter for Zyra. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to 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 lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Zyra. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities 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 values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Karma versus Zyra build consist of Redemption, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better against Zyra than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 46.3% battling Zyra with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Zyra as Karma, Karma players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Karma vs Zyra counterpicks, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.3% winrate overall.
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