Karma vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Karma
based on 2,038 Karma vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Azir
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
Advice to Win Against Azir
Try to think of Sand Soldiers as fire. Don't stand in the fire.
Azir relies on his soldiers to deal damage and can only move them so often. Try to capitalize on windows of time when his soldiers are stationary.
Azir has immense damage over a prolonged amount of time but lacks the upfront burst of other mages. Try to burst him out before he can turn a confrontation around.
Karma vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Karma in LoL
The stats provided here show several important Karma vs. Azir matchup statistics that can help us interpret the differences between the two. For instance, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Azir’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Azir. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Karma often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Azir. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Azir
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Who is Better, Karma or Azir?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Karma usually loses when taking on Azir, with a 47.9% win rate. As a result, Karma makes a bad counter for Azir.
While Karma does have a lower win rate than Azir, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Karma into Azir.
Furthermore, Karma has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Azir. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Azir matchups, Azir is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Karma is a garbage counter to Azir. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Karma in order to counter Azir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma on average accumulates less CS relative to Azir. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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 need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Karma versus Azir build include Ardent Censer, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs Azir than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 47.9% battling Azir with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Azir as Karma, Karma players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Karma vs Azir fights, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.9% winrate overall.
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