Zilean vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Zilean
based on 1,240 Zilean vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zilean vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Zilean vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Zilean
Tips for Playing as Zilean against Karma
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
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.
Zilean vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Zilean in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several vital Zilean against Karma counter statistics that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Zilean’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s ratio of NaN, showing that Zilean may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Karma..
Zilean typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Karma. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zilean and Karma
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Who is Better, Zilean or Karma?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zilean usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Karma, with a 50.7% win rate. Therefore, Zilean makes an ok counter for Karma.
While Zilean does have a higher win rate compared to Karma, when they face off with one another, Zilean also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Zilean into Karma.
Moreover, Zilean has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zilean vs Karma matchups, Zilean 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 teamfights.
Zilean is a decent counter to Karma. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zilean against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zilean to counter Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zilean often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Karma. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Zilean versus Karma build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Morellonomicon, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better against Karma than with most other common builds. In fact, Zilean boasted an average winrate of 50.7% when countering Karma with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Karma as Zilean, Zilean players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Zilean vs Karma counters, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.7% winrate overall.
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