Karma vs Shaco
How to Beat Shaco as Karma
based on 3,628 Karma vs Shaco matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Shaco Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Shaco Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Karma Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Shaco as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Shaco
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 Shaco
If Shaco is doing well early-game, it is worth the investment to place Stealth Wards near his Jungle camps.
If Shaco uses Deceive to enter a fight he won't be able to quickly use it again to get away. Work with your team to quickly focus him down.
Karma vs Shaco Counter Stats
How to Counter Shaco with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several influential Karma against Shaco counter statistics that may help us distinguish the distinctions between this pair of champs. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Shaco’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Shaco..
Karma normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Shaco. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Shaco
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Karma or Shaco?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Karma usually loses when playing against Shaco, with a 48.1% win rate. Therefore, Karma makes a poor counter to Shaco.
While Karma does have a lower win rate compared to Shaco, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Shaco.
Moreover, Karma has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Shaco. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karma vs Shaco matchups, Shaco is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter for Shaco. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Karma against Shaco.
Other Champion Matchups Against Karma
Additional Information for Karma Players
How We Calculated Our Karma vs Shaco Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma in order to counter Shaco during both the early game 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 above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma on average racks up more CS compared to Shaco. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Karma versus Shaco build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better versus Shaco than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 48.1% battling Shaco with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Shaco as Karma, Karma players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Karma vs Shaco LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
If you need to view Karma vs Shaco tips and counter stats for a a specific division, feel free to select one from the selection menu displayed above. If viewing for the first time, the stats and build suggestions displayed are computed using every game finished with both champs.