Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
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.
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some influential Elise versus Karma matchup stats that can help you explain the differences between the two. Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Karma’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Karma. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Elise often has a much larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Karma. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Elise usually loses when trying to fight Karma, with a 47.5% win rate. As a result, Elise makes a bad counter to Karma.
While Elise does have a lower winrate than Karma, when they face off with one another, Elise also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Elise into Karmaas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Elise has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Elise 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Elise is a trash counter to Karma. Focus your actions on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Elise against Karma.
To truly master Elise to counter Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise on average racks up less CS compared to Karma. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Elise versus Karma build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Karma than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Elise boasted an average win rate of 47.5% when countering Karma with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Karma as Elise, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Elise vs Karma fights, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Karma as Elise are given for all skill levels combined. To scope the stats and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.