Xerath vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Xerath
based on 3,964 Xerath vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xerath vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Xerath vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Xerath
Tips for Playing as Xerath against Karma
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
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.
Xerath vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Xerath in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several important Xerath against Karma counter statistics that may help us grasp the differences between the pair. For instance, Xerath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Xerath may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Karma..
Xerath typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Karma. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Xerath and Karma
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Who is Better, Xerath or Karma?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Xerath usually wins when trying to fight Karma, with a 51.6% win rate. Thus, Xerath makes a good counter for Karma.
While Xerath does have a higher win rate than Karma, when on opposite teams, Xerath also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Xerath into Karmaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Xerath has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Xerath vs Karma matchups, Xerath is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Xerath is a decent counter for Karma. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Xerath against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Xerath in order to counter Karma during both the early game 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 mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xerath typically gets more CS compared to Karma. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Xerath versus Karma build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Shadowflame. When Xerath combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Karma than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Xerath had an average win rate of 51.6% when playing against Karma with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Karma as Xerath, you should take 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 combinations we have analyed for Xerath vs Karma battles, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.6% winrate overall.
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