Viktor vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Viktor
based on 1,530 Viktor vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Viktor vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Viktor vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Viktor
Tips for Playing as Viktor against Karma
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
Viktor vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Viktor in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some strategic Viktor against Karma counter statistics that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between the two. Viktor’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s ratio of NaN, showing that Viktor may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Karma..
Viktor usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Karma. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Viktor and Karma
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Who is Better, Viktor or Karma?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Viktor usually wins when taking on Karma, with a 52.4% win rate. Therefore, Viktor makes a good counter to Karma.
While Viktor does have a higher win rate compared to Karma, when facing one another, Viktor also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Viktor into Karmaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Viktor 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 one best champion in League of Legends, in Viktor vs Karma matchups, Viktor is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Viktor is a good counter to Karma. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Viktor against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Viktor in order to counter Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Viktor typically gets more CS as Karma. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often 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, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Viktor versus Karma build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor used at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Karma than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Viktor boasted an average winrate of 52.4% battling Karma with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Karma as Viktor, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Viktor vs Karma LoL games, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.4% winrate overall.
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