Bard vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Bard
based on 3,377 Bard vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Karma
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Bard in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some strategic Bard vs. Karma matchup stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between these two champs. For instance, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Karma’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Karma..
Bard typically has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Karma. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Karma
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Who is Better, Bard or Karma?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when facing off against Karma, with a 52.2% win rate. Thus, Bard makes a good counter for Karma.
While Bard does have a higher winrate than Karma, when on opposite teams, Bard also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Bard into Karmaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Bard has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Bard vs Karma matchups, Bard is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Bard is a good counter to Karma. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Bard against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to counter Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard most often picks up less CS compared to Karma. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Bard versus Karma build include Trailblazer, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. Karma than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 52.2% battling Karma with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Karma as Bard, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Bard vs Karma counters, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.2% win rate overall.
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