Karma vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Karma
based on 1,005 Karma vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Karma vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Karma in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some valuable Karma vs. Kalista counter stats that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kalista. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Karma often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Kalista. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Kalista
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Who is Better, Karma or Kalista?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Karma usually wins when trying to fight Kalista, with a 51.5% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a good counter to Kalista.
While Karma does have a higher winrate than Kalista, when facing one another, Karma also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Kalista.
Moreover, Karma has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karma vs Kalista matchups, Karma is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Karma is a decent counter to Kalista. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karma to counter Kalista during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma typically picks up less CS relative to Kalista. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Karma versus Kalista build consist of Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Kalista than with most other common item sets. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 51.5% when countering Kalista with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Kalista as Karma, Karma players should take 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 sets players picked for Karma vs Kalista counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.5% winrate overall.
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