Annie vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Annie
based on 1,592 Annie vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Annie vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Annie vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Annie
Tips for Playing as Annie against Karma
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
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.
Annie vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Annie in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some influential Annie versus Karma counter stats that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. Annie’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Karma’s ratio of NaN, showing that Annie may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Karma. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Annie typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Karma. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Annie or Karma?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Annie usually wins when facing off against Karma, with a 51.4% win rate. Therefore, Annie makes a good counter for Karma.
While Annie does have a higher winrate compared to Karma, when on opposite teams, Annie also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Annie into Karma.
Moreover, Annie has a good 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Annie vs Karma matchups, Annie 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.
Annie is a decent counter for Karma. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Annie against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Annie to counter Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Annie typically gets more CS relative to Karma. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities 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 do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Annie versus Karma build consist of Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Annie bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs. Karma than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Annie boasted an average win rate of 51.4% when playing against Karma with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Karma as Annie, Annie players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Absolute Focus runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Annie vs Karma battles, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.4% winrate overall.
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