Karma vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Karma
based on 2,353 Karma vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Soraka
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 Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Karma vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Karma in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several valuable Karma versus Soraka matchup stats that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Soraka’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Soraka..
Karma usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Soraka. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Soraka
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Who is Better, Karma or Soraka?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when playing against Soraka, with a 50.7% win rate. Thus, Karma makes an ok counter for Soraka.
While Karma does have a higher winrate than Soraka, when facing one another, Karma also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Karma into Soraka.
Furthermore, Karma also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Soraka. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karma vs Soraka matchups, Karma is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Karma is a decent counter for Soraka. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Soraka.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karma to counter Soraka during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma usually gets more CS compared to Soraka. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Karma versus Soraka build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better against Soraka than with many other common builds. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 50.7% when playing against Soraka with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Soraka as Karma, Karma players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Karma vs Soraka counterpicks, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.7% winrate overall.
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