Vladimir vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Vladimir
based on 3,196 Vladimir vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vladimir vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Vladimir vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Vladimir
Tips for Playing as Vladimir against Karma
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
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.
Vladimir vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Vladimir in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some important Vladimir against Karma matchup stats that can help you interpret the differences between the two. Vladimir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Vladimir may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Karma. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Vladimir typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Karma. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vladimir and Karma
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Who is Better, Vladimir or Karma?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vladimir usually fairs equally well when facing off against Karma, with a 49.5% win rate. Thus, Vladimir makes an ok counter to Karma.
While Vladimir does have a lower win rate compared to Karma, when on opposite teams, Vladimir also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Vladimir into Karmaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vladimir has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vladimir vs Karma matchups, Karma is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Vladimir is a somewhat poor counter for Karma. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Vladimir against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vladimir in order to counter Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vladimir often gets more CS as Karma. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Vladimir versus Karma build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Riftmaker. When Vladimir used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Karma than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Vladimir boasted an average winrate of 49.5% battling Karma with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Karma as Vladimir, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Vladimir vs Karma matchups, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Karma as Vladimir are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.