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.
The stats shown on this page show several strategic Qiyana against Karma counter stats that may help us understand the distinctions between the two. As an example, Qiyana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Karma’s ratio of NaN, showing that Qiyana may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Karma. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Qiyana often has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she takes more damage than Karma. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Qiyana usually fairs equally well when taking on Karma, with a 50.8% win rate. Thus, Qiyana makes an ok counter for Karma.
While Qiyana does have a higher win rate than Karma, when they face off with one another, Qiyana also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Qiyana into Karmaas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Qiyana also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Karma. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Qiyana vs Karma matchups, Qiyana is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Qiyana is a decent counter for Karma. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Qiyana against Karma.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Qiyana in order to counter Karma during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Qiyana usually gets more CS relative to Karma. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Qiyana versus Karma build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Opportunity. When Qiyana combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Karma than with most other typical builds. In fact, Qiyana boasted an average win rate of 50.8% when countering Karma with this build.
To have the best chance of beating Karma as Qiyana, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Qiyana vs Karma matchups, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.8% winrate overall.
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