Karma vs Naafiri
How to Beat Naafiri as Karma
based on 1,359 Karma vs Naafiri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Naafiri Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Naafiri as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Naafiri
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.
Karma vs Naafiri Counter Stats
How to Counter Naafiri with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several influential Karma versus Naafiri counter statistics that can help you grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Naafiri’s ratio of NaN, showing that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Naafiri. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Karma normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives less damage than Naafiri. 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 escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Naafiri
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Who is Better, Karma or Naafiri?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karma usually loses when facing off against Naafiri, with a 47.8% win rate. As a result, Karma makes a bad counter to Naafiri.
While Karma does have a lower win rate compared to Naafiri, when facing one another, Karma also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Karma into Naafiri.
Additionally, Karma also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Naafiri. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karma vs Naafiri matchups, Naafiri is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Karma is a terribly counter to Naafiri. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Naafiri.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karma in order to counter Naafiri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma usually racks up less CS compared to Naafiri. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Karma versus Naafiri build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Karma combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Naafiri than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 47.8% when playing against Naafiri with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Naafiri 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 players used for Karma vs Naafiri counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.8% win rate overall.
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