Vel'Koz vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Vel'Koz
based on 2,196 Vel'Koz vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Karma
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
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.
Vel'Koz vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several vital Vel'Koz against Karma counter statistics that can help us realize the differences and similarities between these two champions. For instance, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Karma..
Vel'Koz typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Karma. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Karma
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Karma?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Vel'Koz usually wins when facing off against Karma, with a 52.3% win rate. Therefore, Vel'Koz makes a good counter to Karma.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher winrate than Karma, when facing one another, Vel'Koz also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Vel'Koz into Karmaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Vel'Koz has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Karma matchups, Vel'Koz 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.
Vel'Koz is an above average counter for Karma. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Vel'Koz against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz 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 tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz often gets a similar amount of CS as Karma. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Vel'Koz versus Karma build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Karma than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average win rate of 52.3% when playing against Karma with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Karma as Vel'Koz, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Vel'Koz vs Karma battles, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.3% win rate overall.
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