Hecarim vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Hecarim
based on 2,586 Hecarim vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Hecarim vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Hecarim vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Hecarim against Karma
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
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.
Hecarim vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Hecarim in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some significant Hecarim versus Karma counter statistics that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Hecarim’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Hecarim may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Karma. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Hecarim usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than Karma. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Hecarim and Karma
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Who is Better, Hecarim or Karma?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Hecarim usually fairs equally well when taking on Karma, with a 50.8% win rate. Therefore, Hecarim makes an ok counter to Karma.
While Hecarim does have a higher win rate than Karma, when facing one another, Hecarim also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Hecarim into Karma.
Additionally, Hecarim also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Hecarim vs Karma matchups, Hecarim is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Hecarim is a decent counter for Karma. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Hecarim against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Hecarim in order to counter Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hecarim usually gets less CS compared to Karma. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Hecarim versus Karma build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Hecarim combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Karma than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Hecarim had an average winrate of 50.8% when countering Karma with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Karma as Hecarim, Hecarim players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Hecarim vs Karma counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Karma as Hecarim are shown for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.