Nami vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Nami
based on 3,230 Nami vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nami vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Nami vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Nami
Tips for Playing as Nami against Karma
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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.
Nami vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Nami in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several strategic Nami versus Karma counter stats that may help us distinguish the differences between the pair. For instance, Nami’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nami may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Karma..
Nami often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Karma. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nami and Karma
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Who is Better, Nami or Karma?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nami usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Karma, with a 50.0% win rate. As a result, Nami makes an ok counter for Karma.
While Nami does have a higher winrate than Karma, when they face off with one another, Nami also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Nami into Karma.
Moreover, Nami has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Karma. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nami vs Karma matchups, Karma is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Nami is a decent counter to 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 Nami against Karma.
Other Champion Matchups Against Nami
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How We Calculated Our Nami vs Karma Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nami in order to counter Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nami most often racks up less CS relative to Karma. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Nami versus Karma build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Nami used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Karma than with many other common builds. In fact, Nami had an average win rate of 50.0% when playing against Karma with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Karma as Nami, Nami players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Nami vs Karma counters, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.0% winrate overall.
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