Garen vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Garen
based on 3,692 Garen vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Karma
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some critical Garen against Karma counter statistics that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Karma. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Garen often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he takes more damage than Karma. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Karma
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Who is Better, Garen or Karma?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Garen usually wins when trying to fight Karma, with a 51.8% win rate. As a result, Garen makes a good counter for Karma.
While Garen does have a higher win rate compared to Karma, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Garen into Karma.
Additionally, Garen also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Karma. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Garen vs Karma matchups, Garen is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Garen is a decent counter to Karma. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Garen against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Garen 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 mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen on average gets more CS as Karma. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Garen versus Karma build include Trinity Force, Hullbreaker, and Stridebreaker. When Garen included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Karma than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 51.8% battling Karma with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Karma as Garen, Garen players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Garen vs Karma fights, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.8% win rate overall.
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