Karma vs Master Yi
How to Beat Master Yi as Karma
based on 4,559 Karma vs Master Yi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Master Yi Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Master Yi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Master Yi as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Master Yi
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 Master Yi
If Master Yi tries to farm with Alpha Strike, hit him a few times so he has to use mana with Meditate to heal.
Although Master Yi cannot be slowed while using Highlander, other disables can stop him in his tracks.
Meditate is an effective method of healing damage over time, but Master Yi is susceptible to coordinated team ganks early in the game.
Karma vs Master Yi Counter Stats
How to Counter Master Yi with Karma in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some important Karma versus Master Yi counter statistics that may help you figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Master Yi’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Master Yi. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Karma typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes less damage than Master Yi. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Master Yi
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Who is Better, Karma or Master Yi?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Karma usually loses when playing against Master Yi, with a 47.2% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a poor counter to Master Yi.
While Karma does have a lower win rate compared to Master Yi, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Karma into Master Yi.
Additionally, Karma also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Master Yi. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Master Yi matchups, Master Yi is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Karma is a trash counter to Master Yi. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Karma against Master Yi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma to counter Master Yi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma most often racks up more CS relative to Master Yi. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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 case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Karma versus Master Yi build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Dream Maker, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Master Yi than with many other typical builds. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 47.2% when countering Master Yi with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Master Yi as Karma, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Karma vs Master Yi counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.2% win rate overall.
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