Thresh vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Thresh
based on 3,947 Thresh vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Karma
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some influential Thresh versus Karma counter stats that can help us realize the differences and similarities between this set of champs. For instance, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Karma..
Thresh often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Karma. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Thresh and Karma
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Who is Better, Thresh or Karma?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Thresh usually fairs equally well when taking on Karma, with a 50.8% win rate. Therefore, Thresh makes an ok counter to Karma.
While Thresh does have a higher win rate compared to Karma, when they face off with one another, Thresh also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Thresh into Karmaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Thresh has a very large amount of utility and CC, 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 isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Karma matchups, Thresh is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Thresh is a decent counter to Karma. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Thresh against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Thresh 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 lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh most often gets less CS compared to Karma. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Thresh versus Karma build consist of Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Thresh combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Karma than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Thresh had an average win rate of 50.8% when playing against Karma with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Karma as Thresh, Thresh players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Thresh vs Karma fights, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.8% winrate overall.
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