Akali vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Akali
based on 5,831 Akali vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Karma
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
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.
Akali vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Akali in LoL
The stats provided here show some valuable Akali against Karma matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Karma’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Karma. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Akali typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives more damage than Karma. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akali and Karma
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Who is Better, Akali or Karma?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akali usually wins when trying to fight Karma, with a 51.7% win rate. As a result, Akali makes a good counter to Karma.
While Akali does have a higher win rate compared to Karma, when they face off with one another, Akali also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Akali into Karmaas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Akali also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Karma. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Akali vs Karma matchups, Akali is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Akali is a decent counter to Karma. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Akali against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Akali to counter Karma during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali usually picks up more CS compared to Karma. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Akali versus Karma build include Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Akali bought at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs Karma than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 51.7% when countering Karma with this counter build.
To have the best chance of beating Karma as Akali, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Akali vs Karma fights, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.7% winrate overall.
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