Karma vs Ahri
How to Beat Ahri as Karma
based on 2,897 Karma vs Ahri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Ahri Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Ahri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ahri as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Ahri
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
Advice to Win Against Ahri
Stay behind minions to make Charm difficult to land, this will reduce Ahri's damage potential significantly.
Ahri's survivability is dramatically reduced when her Ultimate, Spirit Rush, is down.
Karma vs Ahri Counter Stats
How to Counter Ahri with Karma in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several important Karma versus Ahri matchup statistics that may help us realize the differences between the two. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ahri’s ratio of NaN, showing that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Ahri. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Karma often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Ahri. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Ahri
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Who is Better, Karma or Ahri?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually loses when trying to fight Ahri, with a 48.9% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a poor counter to Ahri.
While Karma does have a lower win rate than Ahri, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Karma into Ahri.
Moreover, Karma has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ahri. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Ahri matchups, Ahri is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter to Ahri. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Karma against Ahri.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Karma in order to counter Ahri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma on average accumulates less CS relative to Ahri. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Karma versus Ahri build include Ardent Censer, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Ahri than with most other common builds. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 48.9% when countering Ahri with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Ahri as Karma, Karma players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Karma vs Ahri face-offs, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.9% winrate overall.
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