Nidalee vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Nidalee
based on 696 Nidalee vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Karma
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
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.
Nidalee vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some significant Nidalee vs. Karma counter statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Karma’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Karma. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Nidalee typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Karma. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Karma
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Karma?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when facing off against Karma, with a 46.0% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Karma.
While Nidalee does have a lower win rate compared to Karma, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Karmaas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee has only a small 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 one best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Karma matchups, Karma is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a bad counter for Karma. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nidalee to counter Karma during both the lane 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 stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee usually racks up less CS as Karma. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Nidalee versus Karma build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Nidalee bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better countering Karma than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 46.0% when playing against Karma with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Karma as Nidalee, Nidalee players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Nidalee vs Karma battles, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.0% win rate overall.
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