Karma vs Briar
How to Beat Briar as Karma
based on 4,459 Karma vs Briar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Briar Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Briar as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Briar
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.
Karma vs Briar Counter Stats
How to Counter Briar with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several valuable Karma vs. Briar counter statistics that can help you appreciate the distinctions between this set of champions. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Briar’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Briar. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Karma normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes less damage than Briar. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Karma or Briar?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karma usually loses when trying to fight Briar, with a 46.0% win rate. Therefore, Karma makes a poor counter for Briar.
While Karma does have a lower win rate than Briar, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Karma into Briar.
Moreover, Karma also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Briar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karma vs Briar matchups, Briar is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Karma is a trash counter to Briar. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Briar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karma to counter Briar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma on average picks up more CS compared to Briar. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Karma versus Briar build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Cosmic Drive. When Karma used at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs. Briar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 46.0% battling Briar with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Briar as Karma, Karma players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Karma vs Briar counters, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.0% winrate overall.
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