Pyke vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Pyke
based on 3,500 Pyke vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pyke vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Pyke vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Pyke
Tips for Playing as Pyke against Karma
The Tap version of Bone Skewer is much faster and deals additional damage.
A lot of your agressive spells are also your escapes. Make sure you always have a plan to get out of the fight.
Hitting an enemy with the Hold version of Bone Skewer will always pull them the same distance. Use it in melee range to throw targets behind you.
Pyke is very fragile so don't be afraid to temporarily run from a fight. You can regenerate a significant amount of health from Gift of the Drowned Ones when enemies can't see you.
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.
Pyke vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Pyke in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several critical Pyke versus Karma counter stats that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Pyke’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Pyke may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Karma. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Pyke typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Karma. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Pyke and Karma
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Who is Better, Pyke or Karma?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Pyke usually wins when facing off against Karma, with a 52.9% win rate. As a result, Pyke makes a good counter for Karma.
While Pyke does have a higher winrate than Karma, when facing one another, Pyke also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Pyke into Karmaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Pyke also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Pyke vs Karma matchups, Pyke is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Pyke is a good counter for Karma. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Pyke against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Pyke in order to counter Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pyke on average racks up less CS compared to Karma. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions 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 values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Pyke versus Karma build consist of Bloodsong, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Pyke included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Karma than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Pyke had an average win rate of 52.9% when playing against Karma with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Karma as Pyke, Pyke players should take the Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Ultimate Hunter, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Pyke vs Karma counterpicks, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Karma as Pyke are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.