Zeri vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Zeri
based on 987 Zeri vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zeri vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Zeri vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Zeri
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.
Zeri vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Zeri in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some important Zeri versus Karma counter stats that can help you explain the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Zeri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zeri may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Karma. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Zeri often has a much larger longest killing spree than their matchup does. Commonly, they receives more damage than Karma. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zeri and Karma
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Who is Better, Zeri or Karma?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zeri usually loses when facing off against Karma, with a 45.9% win rate. Thus, Zeri makes a bad counter for Karma.
While Zeri does have a much lower win rate compared to Karma, when on opposite teams, Zeri also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Zeri into Karma.
Additionally, Zeri has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Karma. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zeri vs Karma matchups, Karma is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Zeri is a trash counter to Karma. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zeri against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zeri in order to counter Karma during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zeri often racks up more CS relative to Karma. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Zeri versus Karma build include Experimental Hexplate, Runaan's Hurricane, and Navori Quickblades. When Zeri combined at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better vs. Karma than with many other typical builds. In fact, Zeri had an average winrate of 45.9% when playing against Karma with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of beating Karma as Zeri, Zeri players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Zeri vs Karma counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.9% winrate overall.
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