Karthus vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Karthus
based on 1,358 Karthus vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karthus vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Karthus vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Karthus
Tips for Playing as Karthus against Karma
Lay Waste is very strong at farming minions and harassing enemy champions.
Ask your allies to help point out when you should use Requiem to get kills in different lanes.
Advice to Win Against Karma
Focused Resolve is a strong disengage tool. Create distance to avoid being rooted and seek to engage afterwards.
Karma's Soulflare erupts for bonus damage in the area in which it's placed. React quickly and escape the circle to avoid taking heavy damage.
Karma's passive lowers her Mantra cooldown when she hits enemy champions with abilities and basic attacks. Deny her from getting free hits on you.
Karthus vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Karthus in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several vital Karthus versus Karma matchup stats that may help you figure out the differences between the two. For instance, Karthus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karthus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Karma. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Karthus normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Karma. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karthus and Karma
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Who is Better, Karthus or Karma?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karthus usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Karma, with a 49.3% win rate. Therefore, Karthus makes an ok counter for Karma.
While Karthus does have a lower win rate compared to Karma, when they face off with one another, Karthus also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Karthus into Karmaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Karthus also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Karthus vs Karma matchups, Karma is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Karthus is a somewhat poor counter for Karma. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karthus against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karthus in order to counter Karma during both the laning 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 mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karthus often picks up a similar amount of CS as Karma. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Karthus versus Karma build include Malignance, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Karma than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Karthus had an average win rate of 49.3% when countering Karma with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of beating Karma as Karthus, you should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Karthus vs Karma face-offs, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.3% winrate overall.
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