Aphelios vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Aphelios
based on 2,401 Aphelios vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Karma
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Aphelios in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several strategic Aphelios against Karma matchup stats that can help us figure out the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Karma. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Aphelios usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Karma. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Aphelios and Karma
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Karma?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Aphelios usually loses when taking on Karma, with a 48.5% win rate. Thus, Aphelios makes a poor counter to Karma.
While Aphelios does have a lower win rate compared to Karma, when on opposite teams, Aphelios also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Aphelios into Karmaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Aphelios also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Karma matchups, Karma is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Aphelios is a somewhat poor counter to Karma. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Aphelios against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios to counter Karma during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios typically accumulates more CS as Karma. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Aphelios versus Karma build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Karma than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average winrate of 48.5% when countering Karma with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Karma as Aphelios, Aphelios players should use the Lethal Tempo, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Aphelios vs Karma face-offs, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.5% winrate overall.
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