Yasuo vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Yasuo
based on 7,105 Yasuo vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yasuo vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Yasuo vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Yasuo against Karma
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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.
Yasuo vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Yasuo in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several critical Yasuo against Karma counter stats that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Yasuo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Yasuo may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Karma. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Yasuo typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Karma. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Yasuo and Karma
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Who is Better, Yasuo or Karma?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yasuo usually wins when taking on Karma, with a 53.5% win rate. Therefore, Yasuo makes a great counter to Karma.
While Yasuo does have a higher win rate than Karma, when on opposite teams, Yasuo also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Yasuo into Karmaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Yasuo has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Karma. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yasuo vs Karma matchups, Yasuo 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.
Yasuo is a great counter for Karma. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Yasuo against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Yasuo to counter Karma during both the early game 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 listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yasuo usually racks up more CS compared to Karma. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. 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 a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Yasuo versus Karma build consist of Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Yasuo combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Karma than with many other typical builds. In fact, Yasuo boasted an average winrate of 53.5% battling Karma with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating Karma as Yasuo, Yasuo players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Unflinching, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Yasuo vs Karma matchups, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.5% winrate overall.
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