Karma vs Gnar
How to Beat Gnar as Karma
based on 1,064 Karma vs Gnar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Gnar Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gnar as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Gnar
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 Gnar
Gnar's ultimate stuns if he hits you into a wall. Be careful when fighting him near one.
Gnar's animations and resource bar change as he gets closer to transforming.
Gnar can't gain Rage for 15 seconds after he turns from big to little. Use this chance to engage on his team.
Karma vs Gnar Counter Stats
How to Counter Gnar with Karma in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several influential Karma against Gnar counter stats that can help us explain the distinctions between the two. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gnar’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Gnar. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Karma typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Gnar. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Karma or Gnar?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karma usually wins when playing against Gnar, with a 51.9% win rate. As a result, Karma makes a good counter to Gnar.
While Karma does have a higher winrate compared to Gnar, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Gnar.
Additionally, Karma has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gnar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Gnar matchups, Karma is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Karma is a decent counter for Gnar. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Gnar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma to counter Gnar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma usually picks up less CS as Gnar. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Karma versus Gnar 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 when facing Gnar than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 51.9% when countering Gnar with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Gnar as Karma, you should equip 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 builds players chose for Karma vs Gnar counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.9% winrate overall.
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