Nasus vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Nasus
based on 2,842 Nasus vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Karma
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Nasus in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several critical Nasus versus Karma counter statistics that can help you grasp the differences between the pair. For instance, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Karma’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Karma..
Nasus typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Karma. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nasus and Karma
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Who is Better, Nasus or Karma?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nasus usually wins when playing against Karma, with a 53.6% win rate. As a result, Nasus makes a great counter to Karma.
While Nasus does have a higher win rate than Karma, when they face off with one another, Nasus also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Nasus into Karma.
Moreover, Nasus has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Karma. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Karma matchups, Nasus is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Nasus is a great counter for Karma. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nasus against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nasus in order to counter Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus on average gets more CS compared to Karma. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Nasus versus Karma build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Frozen Heart. When Nasus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Karma than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 53.6% when countering Karma with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing Karma as Nasus, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Nasus vs Karma matchups, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.6% winrate overall.
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