Naafiri vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Naafiri
based on 1,359 Naafiri vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Naafiri vs Karma Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Karma as Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Naafiri against Karma
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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.
Naafiri vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Naafiri in LoL
The stats provided here feature several valuable Naafiri versus Karma counter stats that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Karma. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Naafiri usually has a much larger longest kill spree than their foe does. On average, they takes more damage than Karma. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Naafiri or Karma?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Naafiri usually wins when trying to fight Karma, with a 52.2% win rate. Thus, Naafiri makes a good counter for Karma.
While Naafiri does have a higher win rate than Karma, when on opposite teams, Naafiri also has a lower learning curve that makes them a less difficult champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Naafiri into Karma.
Moreover, Naafiri also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Karma. This often 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 overall in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Karma matchups, Naafiri is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Naafiri is an above average counter for Karma. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Naafiri against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Naafiri in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri typically gets more CS as Karma. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. 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 require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Naafiri versus Karma build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Profane Hydra. When Naafiri used at least these three items in their build, they performed significantly better when facing Karma than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Naafiri had an average win rate of 52.2% when playing against Karma with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Karma as Naafiri, Naafiri players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Naafiri vs Karma counter picks, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.2% winrate overall.
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