Poppy vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Poppy
based on 1,578 Poppy vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Poppy vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Poppy vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Poppy
Tips for Playing as Poppy against Karma
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Poppy in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some influential Poppy versus Karma counter statistics that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Poppy’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Poppy may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Karma..
Poppy usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes more damage than Karma. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Poppy and Karma
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Who is Better, Poppy or Karma?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Poppy usually fairs equally well when taking on Karma, with a 50.8% win rate. Thus, Poppy makes an ok counter to Karma.
While Poppy does have a higher winrate than Karma, when on opposite teams, Poppy also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Poppy into Karma.
Moreover, Poppy has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Poppy vs Karma matchups, Poppy is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Poppy is a decent counter for Karma. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Poppy against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Poppy in order to counter Karma during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Poppy on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Karma. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, 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 exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Poppy versus Karma build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Poppy included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs. Karma than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Poppy had an average win rate of 50.8% when countering Karma with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Karma as Poppy, Poppy players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Poppy vs Karma battles, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Karma as Poppy are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.