Karma vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Karma
based on 2,791 Karma vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Irelia
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 Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Karma vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Karma in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some strategic Karma against Irelia matchup statistics that may help you realize the differences between this pair of champions. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Irelia’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Irelia. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Karma typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes less damage than Irelia. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Irelia
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Who is Better, Karma or Irelia?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Karma usually loses when trying to fight Irelia, with a 47.0% win rate. As a result, Karma makes a poor counter for Irelia.
While Karma does have a lower winrate compared to Irelia, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Karma into Irelia.
Additionally, Karma also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Karma is a trash counter for Irelia. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Karma against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karma to counter Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma often gets a lot less CS relative to Irelia. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Karma versus Irelia build include Ardent Censer, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when fighting Irelia than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 47.0% when countering Irelia with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Irelia as Karma, Karma players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Karma vs Irelia counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.0% win rate overall.
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