Karma vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Karma
based on 1,240 Karma vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Zilean
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 Zilean
Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.
If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
Karma vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several vital Karma vs. Zilean counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences between the pair. For instance, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zilean’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Zilean..
Karma usually has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Zilean. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Zilean
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Who is Better, Karma or Zilean?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when playing against Zilean, with a 49.3% win rate. Therefore, Karma makes an ok counter to Zilean.
While Karma does have a lower win rate compared to Zilean, when facing one another, Karma also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Zilean.
Additionally, Karma also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zilean. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Zilean matchups, Zilean is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter to Zilean. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Karma against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karma to counter Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma on average accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Zilean. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Karma versus Zilean build consist of Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better versus Zilean than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 49.3% battling Zilean with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Zilean 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 Zilean matchups, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.3% winrate overall.
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