Heimerdinger vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Heimerdinger
based on 1,320 Heimerdinger vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Heimerdinger vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Karma Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Heimerdinger Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Karma as Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger against Karma
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Heimerdinger in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some valuable Heimerdinger against Karma matchup statistics that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the two. Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Heimerdinger may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Karma..
Heimerdinger normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Karma. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Heimerdinger and Karma
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Heimerdinger or Karma?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Heimerdinger usually wins when trying to fight Karma, with a 51.1% win rate. Therefore, Heimerdinger makes a good counter to Karma.
While Heimerdinger does have a higher winrate than Karma, when facing one another, Heimerdinger also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Heimerdinger into Karmaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Heimerdinger has a good amount of CC and other utility, 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 Heimerdinger vs Karma matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Heimerdinger is a decent counter to Karma. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Heimerdinger against Karma.
Other Champion Matchups Against Heimerdinger
Additional Information for Heimerdinger Players
How We Calculated Our Heimerdinger vs Karma Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger in order to counter Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Heimerdinger often accumulates more CS relative to Karma. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Heimerdinger versus Karma build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Heimerdinger combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Karma than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average win rate of 51.1% when playing against Karma with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Karma as Heimerdinger, Heimerdinger players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Heimerdinger vs Karma LoL games, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.1% win rate overall.
If you need to get Heimerdinger versus Karma tips and counter builds for a a distinct player tier, please select one from the selection menu shown above. By default, the stats and build suggestions displayed are calculated using every round played with both champions.