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 underscore several vital Vex against Karma counter stats that can help you distinguish the distinctions between this set of champions. For instance, Vex’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vex may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Karma. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Vex usually has a much larger longest kill spree than their opponent does. Commonly, they takes a similar amount of damage to Karma. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vex usually loses when taking on Karma, with a 48.2% win rate. Thus, Vex makes a poor counter to Karma.
While Vex does have a lower winrate than Karma, when they face off with one another, Vex also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Vex into Karma.
Furthermore, Vex has some amount of utility and CC, 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 isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Vex vs Karma matchups, Karma is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Vex is a somewhat poor counter to Karma. Focus your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Vex against Karma.
To learn all of the intricacies of Vex in order to counter Karma during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vex most often gets more CS as Karma. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Vex versus Karma build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vex included at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better vs Karma than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Vex had an average winrate of 48.2% battling Karma with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Karma as Vex, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Vex vs Karma counterpicks, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Karma as Vex are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.