Olaf vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Olaf
based on 908 Olaf vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Olaf vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Olaf vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Olaf
Tips for Playing as Olaf against Karma
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
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.
Olaf vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Olaf in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several vital Olaf versus Karma matchup statistics that can help you understand the differences between the two. For instance, Olaf’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Olaf may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Karma. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Olaf typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Karma. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Olaf and Karma
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Who is Better, Olaf or Karma?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Olaf usually wins when facing off against Karma, with a 52.1% win rate. Thus, Olaf makes a good counter for Karma.
While Olaf does have a higher winrate than Karma, when on opposite teams, Olaf also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Olaf into Karma.
Additionally, Olaf also has almost no 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 is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Olaf vs Karma matchups, Olaf 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 late stage team fights.
Olaf is an above average counter to Karma. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Olaf against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Olaf 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 lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Olaf on average accumulates more CS compared to Karma. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Olaf versus Karma build include Experimental Hexplate, Ravenous Hydra, and Death's Dance. When Olaf combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better versus Karma than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Olaf boasted an average winrate of 52.1% when countering Karma with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Karma as Olaf, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Olaf vs Karma face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.1% win rate overall.
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