Karma vs Rumble
How to Beat Rumble as Karma
based on 1,744 Karma vs Rumble matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Rumble Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Rumble Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rumble as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Rumble
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 Rumble
Rumble deals almost entirely magic damage. Build some Magic Resistance to reduce his damage.
Watch Rumble's Heat bar carefully. If you see him Overheat, go in for the kill while his skills are disabled.
Rumble's ultimate can deal a lot of damage if you stay inside the area of effect. When you see the missiles falling, move out of the way as quickly as possible.
Karma vs Rumble Counter Stats
How to Counter Rumble with Karma in LoL
The stats shown here show some strategic Karma versus Rumble counter stats that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rumble’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Rumble. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Karma normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives less damage than Rumble. 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 kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Rumble
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Who is Better, Karma or Rumble?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when playing against Rumble, with a 50.3% win rate. Thus, Karma makes an ok counter to Rumble.
While Karma does have a higher winrate than Rumble, when facing one another, Karma also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Karma into Rumble.
Additionally, Karma has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rumble. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter 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 Rumble matchups, Karma is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Karma is a decent counter for Rumble. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Karma against Rumble.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Karma to counter Rumble during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma usually gets less CS compared to Rumble. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Karma versus Rumble build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs Rumble than with most other typical builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 50.3% battling Rumble with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Rumble 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 builds that we analyzed for Karma vs Rumble clashes, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.3% win rate overall.
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