Karma vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Karma
based on 2,401 Karma vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Aphelios
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 Aphelios
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different weaknesses, try to exploit the ones that work best for your champion. Watch out for the purple Gravity gun, it can root you.
Karma vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some vital Karma vs. Aphelios matchup stats that can help you explain the distinctions between the two. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Aphelios. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Karma usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Karma or Aphelios?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karma usually wins when trying to fight Aphelios, with a 51.5% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a good counter to Aphelios.
While Karma does have a higher win rate than Aphelios, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Karma into Aphelios.
Furthermore, Karma has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing 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 Aphelios matchups, Karma is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Karma is a decent counter for Aphelios. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma to counter Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats 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 as Aphelios. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't need 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Karma versus Aphelios build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better against Aphelios than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 51.5% when playing against Aphelios with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Aphelios as Karma, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Karma vs Aphelios counterpicks, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.5% winrate overall.
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