Shaco vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Shaco
based on 3,628 Shaco vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Karma
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.
Shaco vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Shaco in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some critical Shaco against Karma matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Karma. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Shaco often has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Karma. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shaco and Karma
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Who is Better, Shaco or Karma?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Shaco usually wins when playing against Karma, with a 51.9% win rate. Thus, Shaco makes a good counter to Karma.
While Shaco does have a higher winrate compared to Karma, when on opposite teams, Shaco also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Shaco into Karmaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Shaco has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Karma matchups, Shaco is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Shaco is a decent counter for Karma. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Shaco against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Shaco 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 pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco on average racks up less CS as Karma. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Shaco versus Karma build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Imperial Mandate, and Liandry's Torment. When Shaco incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better against Karma than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Shaco had an average winrate of 51.9% when playing against Karma with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Karma as Shaco, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Shaco vs Karma battles, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.9% winrate overall.
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