Malphite vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Malphite
based on 3,793 Malphite vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malphite vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Malphite vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Malphite
Tips for Playing as Malphite against Karma
Despite his abilities scaling on Armor, some games require Malphite to get Magic Resist. When those games occur, try getting Aegis of the Legion, Mercury's Treads, and Guardian Angel.
Armor naturally reduces the rate that attacks go through Granite Shield, so Brutal Strikes will strengthen the shield against physical damage.
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.
Malphite vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Malphite in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some valuable Malphite against Karma counter stats that can help you interpret the differences between the pair. As an example, Malphite’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Malphite may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Karma..
Malphite typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Karma. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Malphite and Karma
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Who is Better, Malphite or Karma?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Malphite usually wins when trying to fight Karma, with a 51.6% win rate. Thus, Malphite makes a good counter for Karma.
While Malphite does have a higher winrate than Karma, when they face off with one another, Malphite also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Malphite into Karma.
Furthermore, Malphite has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Karma. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Malphite vs Karma matchups, Malphite is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Malphite is a decent counter for Karma. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Malphite against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Malphite in order to counter Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malphite on average gets more CS as Karma. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Malphite versus Karma build consist of Unending Despair, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Malphite included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Karma than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Malphite had an average win rate of 51.6% when countering Karma with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Karma as Malphite, Malphite players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Malphite vs Karma counters, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.6% winrate overall.
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