Karma vs Shyvana
How to Beat Shyvana as Karma
based on 1,303 Karma vs Shyvana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Shyvana Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Shyvana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shyvana as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Shyvana
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 Shyvana
All of Shyvana's basic abilities hit multiple enemies in dragon form. It's important for opposing champions to not cluster while fighting her.
Shyvana's Fury Bar indicate her ultimate can be activated. Harassing her when she's low on Fury can be very effective.
A significant portion of Shyvana's power is generated through aggression, making her weak against opponents who are able to keep their distance.
Karma vs Shyvana Counter Stats
How to Counter Shyvana with Karma in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several significant Karma against Shyvana counter statistics that can help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Shyvana’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Shyvana. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Karma often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes less damage than Shyvana. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Shyvana
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Who is Better, Karma or Shyvana?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when taking on Shyvana, with a 49.9% win rate. Thus, Karma makes an ok counter for Shyvana.
While Karma does have a lower winrate than Shyvana, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Shyvana.
Moreover, Karma has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shyvana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Shyvana matchups, Shyvana is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter to Shyvana. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Shyvana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karma in order to counter Shyvana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Shyvana. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Karma versus Shyvana build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Dream Maker. When Karma included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better versus Shyvana than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 49.9% battling Shyvana with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Shyvana as Karma, Karma players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Karma vs Shyvana face-offs, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.9% win rate overall.
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