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.
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some significant Karma vs. Qiyana counter stats that may help you understand the differences between the pair. For instance, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Qiyana’s ratio of NaN, showing that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Qiyana. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Karma often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Qiyana. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Qiyana, with a 49.2% win rate. As a result, Karma makes an ok counter for Qiyana.
While Karma does have a lower winrate compared to Qiyana, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Karma into Qiyana.
Additionally, Karma also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Qiyana. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karma vs Qiyana matchups, Qiyana is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter to Qiyana. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Qiyana.
If you would like to truly master Karma to counter Qiyana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma on average accumulates less CS as Qiyana. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Karma versus Qiyana build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Karma used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better versus Qiyana than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 49.2% when countering Qiyana with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Qiyana as Karma, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Karma vs Qiyana counter picks, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Qiyana as Karma are presented for every ranked division. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.