Karma vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Karma
based on 1,831 Karma vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Illaoi
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 Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Karma vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several influential Karma vs. Illaoi matchup stats that may help us interpret the distinctions between the two. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Illaoi’s ratio of NaN, showing that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Illaoi. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Karma often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives less damage than Illaoi. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Karma or Illaoi?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when taking on Illaoi, with a 50.0% win rate. Therefore, Karma makes an ok counter for Illaoi.
While Karma does have a higher winrate than Illaoi, when facing one another, Karma also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Illaoi.
Furthermore, Karma has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Karma is a decent counter to Illaoi. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma in order to counter Illaoi 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 listen to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma on average racks up less CS as Illaoi. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Karma versus Illaoi build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs Illaoi than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 50.0% when playing against Illaoi with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Illaoi as Karma, Karma players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Karma vs Illaoi face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
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