Karma vs Kassadin
How to Beat Kassadin as Karma
based on 1,390 Karma vs Kassadin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Kassadin Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kassadin as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Kassadin
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 Kassadin
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
Karma vs Kassadin Counter Stats
How to Counter Kassadin with Karma in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several influential Karma against Kassadin counter statistics that may help us appreciate the differences between the two. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kassadin’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kassadin. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Karma often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes less damage than Kassadin. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Kassadin
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Who is Better, Karma or Kassadin?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually loses when playing against Kassadin, with a 45.8% win rate. Therefore, Karma makes a bad counter for Kassadin.
While Karma does have a much lower winrate than Kassadin, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Karma into Kassadin.
Furthermore, Karma has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kassadin. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karma vs Kassadin matchups, Kassadin is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Karma is a bad counter to Kassadin. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Karma against Kassadin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Karma in order to counter Kassadin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma most often gets less CS relative to Kassadin. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. 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, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Karma versus Kassadin build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Kassadin than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 45.8% battling Kassadin with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Kassadin 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. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Karma vs Kassadin face-offs, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Kassadin as Karma are given for all ranked divisions. To scope the statistics and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.