Karma vs Annie
How to Beat Annie as Karma
based on 1,592 Karma vs Annie matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Annie Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Annie Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Annie as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Annie
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 Annie
Annie's summoned bear, Tibbers, burns opposing units around himself. Try to keep your distance from him after he's been summoned.
Keep an eye out for a white, swirling power around Annie. It means she's ready to unleash her stun.
Summoner Smite can be used to help take down Tibbers.
Karma vs Annie Counter Stats
How to Counter Annie with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some important Karma against Annie counter statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Annie’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Annie. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Karma often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Annie. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Annie
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Who is Better, Karma or Annie?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually loses when playing against Annie, with a 48.6% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a bad counter for Annie.
While Karma does have a lower winrate compared to Annie, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Karma into Annie.
Moreover, Karma has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Annie. This often 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 in League of Legends, in Karma vs Annie matchups, Annie is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter to Annie. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Annie.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Karma to counter Annie during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma often racks up less CS compared to Annie. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, 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 a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Karma versus Annie build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs. Annie than with most other typical builds. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 48.6% when playing against Annie with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of beating Annie 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. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Karma vs Annie matchups, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.6% winrate overall.
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