Karma vs Anivia
How to Beat Anivia as Karma
based on 1,495 Karma vs Anivia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Anivia Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Anivia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Anivia as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Anivia
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 Anivia
Try to gank Anivia when she's laning. With multiple people, it is easier to ensure that her egg dies.
If you're playing a ranged champion, stay far enough away from Anivia so you can dodge Flash Frost more easily.
Try to fight Anivia in the lanes. In the jungle she can block pathways with lower ranks of Crystallize.
Karma vs Anivia Counter Stats
How to Counter Anivia with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some strategic Karma versus Anivia matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the differences between the pair. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Anivia’s ratio of NaN, showing that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Anivia. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Karma often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Anivia. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Anivia
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Who is Better, Karma or Anivia?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Karma usually loses when playing against Anivia, with a 48.6% win rate. As a result, Karma makes a bad counter for Anivia.
While Karma does have a lower winrate compared to Anivia, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less complex character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Anivia.
Additionally, Karma has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Anivia. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karma vs Anivia matchups, Anivia is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter for Anivia. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Anivia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karma to counter Anivia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma most often racks up less CS compared to Anivia. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions 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 have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Karma versus Anivia build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better versus Anivia than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 48.6% when countering Anivia with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Anivia as Karma, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Karma vs Anivia battles, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.6% winrate overall.
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