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 significant Viego versus Karma matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the differences between this set of champions. As an example, Viego’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Viego may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Karma. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Viego often has a much larger longest killing spree than their enemy does. Typically, they receives more damage than Karma. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Viego usually wins when trying to fight Karma, with a 52.8% win rate. As a result, Viego makes a good counter to Karma.
While Viego does have a higher winrate compared to Karma, when facing one another, Viego also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more challenging champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Viego into Karma.
Moreover, Viego 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Viego vs Karma matchups, Viego is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Viego is an above average counter to Karma. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Viego against Karma.
If you would like to truly master Viego 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Viego on average gets less CS compared to Karma. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Viego versus Karma build include Guardian Angel, Trinity Force, and Kraken Slayer. When Viego combined at least these three items in their build, they did much better vs Karma than with many other typical builds. In fact, Viego had an average win rate of 52.8% when countering Karma with this counter build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Karma as Viego, Viego players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Viego vs Karma counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.8% win rate overall.
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