Akshan vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Akshan
based on 1,847 Akshan vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Karma
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
Akshan vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some valuable Akshan versus Karma matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Karma. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Akshan typically has a much larger longest killing spree than their enemy does. Typically, they receives a similar amount of damage to Karma. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Akshan or Karma?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually wins when trying to fight Karma, with a 51.9% win rate. Therefore, Akshan makes a good counter to Karma.
While Akshan does have a higher win rate compared to Karma, when on opposite teams, Akshan also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Akshan into Karma.
Additionally, Akshan has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Karma matchups, Akshan is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Akshan is a decent counter for Karma. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Akshan against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akshan to counter Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan often picks up more CS compared to Karma. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Akshan versus Karma build include Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Akshan used at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better countering Karma than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Akshan had an average win rate of 51.9% battling Karma with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Karma as Akshan, you should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Shield Bash, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Akshan vs Karma counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.9% winrate overall.
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