Karma vs Pyke
How to Beat Pyke as Karma
based on 3,500 Karma vs Pyke matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Pyke Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Pyke Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Karma Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Pyke as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Pyke
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 Pyke
Pyke regenerates a significant amount of damage he has taken from enemy champions, but only when you can't see him!
When Pyke is hidden nearby in his Ghostwater Dive, sharks will circle underneath your feet.
Try not to stand near low health allies. If Pyke executes them using Death From Below, you might be next on the list.
Karma vs Pyke Counter Stats
How to Counter Pyke with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some important Karma versus Pyke matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the differences between the two. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Pyke’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Pyke..
Karma usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Pyke. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Pyke
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Karma or Pyke?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Karma usually loses when taking on Pyke, with a 47.1% win rate. As a result, Karma makes a poor counter for Pyke.
While Karma does have a lower win rate than Pyke, when facing one another, Karma also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex character to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Karma into Pyke.
Additionally, Karma also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Pyke. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Pyke matchups, Pyke is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Karma is a terribly counter to Pyke. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Karma against Pyke.
Other Champion Matchups Against Karma
Additional Information for Karma Players
How We Calculated Our Karma vs Pyke Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Karma to counter Pyke during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma typically racks up more CS compared to Pyke. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Karma versus Pyke build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better countering Pyke than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 47.1% when playing against Pyke with this counter build.
To have the best probability of beating Pyke as Karma, Karma players 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 runes that we analyzed for Karma vs Pyke clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.1% win rate overall.
If you would like to view Karma x Pyke tips and builds for a a distinct division rank, please choose one from the selection menu shown above. By default, the statistics and guides displayed are computed using every game played with these champs.