Tristana vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Tristana
based on 3,132 Tristana vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Karma
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Tristana in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several valuable Tristana versus Karma counter stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Karma’s ratio of NaN, showing that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Karma. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Tristana typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Karma. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Tristana and Karma
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Who is Better, Tristana or Karma?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Tristana usually fairs equally well when taking on Karma, with a 49.4% win rate. Therefore, Tristana makes an ok counter for Karma.
While Tristana does have a lower winrate than Karma, when they face off with one another, Tristana also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Tristana into Karma.
Additionally, Tristana has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Karma. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Karma matchups, Karma is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Tristana is a somewhat poor counter to Karma. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Tristana against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Tristana in order to counter Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana on average accumulates more CS relative to Karma. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Tristana versus Karma build consist of Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Kraken Slayer. When Tristana included at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better versus Karma than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Tristana had an average winrate of 49.4% when countering Karma with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Karma as Tristana, Tristana players should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Tristana vs Karma fights, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
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