Malzahar vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Malzahar
based on 3,113 Malzahar vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malzahar vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Karma
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
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.
Malzahar vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Malzahar in LoL
The stats provided here show some critical Malzahar vs. Karma matchup stats that can help us grasp the differences between the pair. As an example, Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Karma..
Malzahar normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Karma. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Malzahar and Karma
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Karma?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Malzahar usually wins when playing against Karma, with a 52.2% win rate. As a result, Malzahar makes a good counter to Karma.
While Malzahar does have a higher win rate than Karma, when facing one another, Malzahar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Malzahar into Karma.
Moreover, Malzahar also has a good amount of CC and other utility, 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 Malzahar vs Karma matchups, Malzahar 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 team fights.
Malzahar is a good counter to Karma. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Malzahar against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Malzahar in order to counter Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar often accumulates much more CS relative to Karma. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Malzahar versus Karma build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Cryptbloom. When Malzahar included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Karma than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 52.2% when playing against Karma with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Karma as Malzahar, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Malzahar vs Karma matchups, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.2% win rate overall.
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