Katarina vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Katarina
based on 3,532 Katarina vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Karma
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several influential Katarina against Karma counter stats that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Karma. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Katarina typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Karma. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Karma
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Who is Better, Katarina or Karma?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually wins when taking on Karma, with a 52.7% win rate. As a result, Katarina makes a good counter for Karma.
While Katarina does have a higher win rate compared to Karma, when on opposite teams, Katarina also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Katarina into Karmaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Karma matchups, Katarina is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Katarina is an above average counter to Karma. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to counter Karma during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina usually picks up more CS compared to Karma. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Katarina versus Karma build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Katarina incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better countering Karma than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 52.7% when countering Karma with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing Karma as Katarina, Katarina players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Relentless Hunter, and Sudden Impact runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Katarina vs Karma face-offs, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.7% winrate overall.
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