Kassadin vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Kassadin
based on 1,390 Kassadin vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kassadin vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Kassadin vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Kassadin against Karma
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Advice to Win Against Karma
Focused Resolve is a strong disengage tool. Create distance to avoid being rooted and seek to engage afterwards.
Karma's Soulflare erupts for bonus damage in the area in which it's placed. React quickly and escape the circle to avoid taking heavy damage.
Karma's passive lowers her Mantra cooldown when she hits enemy champions with abilities and basic attacks. Deny her from getting free hits on you.
Kassadin vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Kassadin in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several critical Kassadin vs. Karma matchup statistics that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Kassadin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Kassadin may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Karma. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Kassadin usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Karma. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kassadin and Karma
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Who is Better, Kassadin or Karma?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kassadin usually wins when taking on Karma, with a 54.2% win rate. As a result, Kassadin makes a great counter for Karma.
While Kassadin does have a much higher win rate than Karma, when they face off with one another, Kassadin also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Kassadin into Karmaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kassadin also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Karma. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kassadin vs Karma matchups, Kassadin is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Kassadin is a great counter for Karma. Focus your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kassadin against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kassadin to counter Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kassadin usually racks up more CS relative to Karma. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Kassadin versus Karma build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Kassadin combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better against Karma than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kassadin had an average winrate of 54.2% battling Karma with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating Karma as Kassadin, Kassadin players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Kassadin vs Karma fights, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 54.2% win rate overall.
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