# Karma Counters Who counters Karma? Best and worst picks against Karma by win rate, plus the lane counters that lead Karma in gold at 15 minutes. Ranked solo data by role and rank. Canonical HTML: https://baronbuff.com/champions/karma/counters/ Markdown URL: https://baronbuff.com/champions/karma/counters.md Language: en ## Breadcrumbs - [Baron Buff](https://baronbuff.com/) - [Champion Tier List](https://baronbuff.com/champions/) - [Karma](https://baronbuff.com/champions/karma/) ## Page Content [Karma guide](https://baronbuff.com/champions/karma/) [Play against Karma](https://baronbuff.com/champions/karma/how-to-play-against/) [Karma counters](https://baronbuff.com/champions/karma/counters/) Best and worst picks against Karma in Support at Gold+, ranked by win rate and by gold lead at 15 minutes. Elise, Rell and Galio beat Karma most often. Vel'Koz, Pyke and Pantheon win the laning phase against Karma by the widest gold margin. ## Best picks against Karma Highest win rate versus Karma in Support. - 1 [Elise](https://baronbuff.com/champions/elise/) 127 games 55.9% - 2 [Rell](https://baronbuff.com/champions/rell/) 589 games 55.2% - 3 [Galio](https://baronbuff.com/champions/galio/) 163 games 54.6% - 4 [Tahm Kench](https://baronbuff.com/champions/tahmkench/) 493 games 54.6% - 5 [Soraka](https://baronbuff.com/champions/soraka/) 825 games 54.1% - 6 [Nautilus](https://baronbuff.com/champions/nautilus/) 1,728 games 54.0% - 7 [Thresh](https://baronbuff.com/champions/thresh/) 2,563 games 53.9% - 8 [Maokai](https://baronbuff.com/champions/maokai/) 275 games 53.8% - 9 [Sona](https://baronbuff.com/champions/sona/) 403 games 53.4% - 10 [Blitzcrank](https://baronbuff.com/champions/blitzcrank/) 1,138 games 53.2% - 11 [Senna](https://baronbuff.com/champions/senna/) 954 games 53.1% - 12 [Zilean](https://baronbuff.com/champions/zilean/) 490 games 52.9% - 13 [Yuumi](https://baronbuff.com/champions/yuumi/) 964 games 52.7% - 14 [Braum](https://baronbuff.com/champions/braum/) 746 games 52.5% - 15 [Lulu](https://baronbuff.com/champions/lulu/) 2,487 games 52.5% ## Worst picks against Karma Lowest win rate versus Karma in Support. - 1 [Ashe](https://baronbuff.com/champions/ashe/) 221 games 40.3% - 2 [Hwei](https://baronbuff.com/champions/hwei/) 112 games 41.1% - 3 [Shen](https://baronbuff.com/champions/shen/) 114 games 45.6% - 4 [Renata Glasc](https://baronbuff.com/champions/renata/) 251 games 45.8% - 5 [Swain](https://baronbuff.com/champions/swain/) 593 games 46.4% - 6 [Taric](https://baronbuff.com/champions/taric/) 175 games 46.9% - 7 [Zyra](https://baronbuff.com/champions/zyra/) 568 games 47.2% - 8 [Annie](https://baronbuff.com/champions/annie/) 1,000 games 47.9% - 9 [Shaco](https://baronbuff.com/champions/shaco/) 235 games 48.5% - 10 [Neeko](https://baronbuff.com/champions/neeko/) 376 games 48.9% ## Best lane counters vs Karma Largest gold lead over Karma at 15 minutes in Support. - 1 [Vel'Koz](https://baronbuff.com/champions/velkoz/) 167 games +408 - 2 [Pyke](https://baronbuff.com/champions/pyke/) 337 games +404 - 3 [Pantheon](https://baronbuff.com/champions/pantheon/) 261 games +370 - 4 [Senna](https://baronbuff.com/champions/senna/) 301 games +364 - 5 [Xerath](https://baronbuff.com/champions/xerath/) 346 games +326 - 6 [Lux](https://baronbuff.com/champions/lux/) 775 games +314 - 7 [Swain](https://baronbuff.com/champions/swain/) 256 games +305 - 8 [Zyra](https://baronbuff.com/champions/zyra/) 306 games +226 - 9 [Brand](https://baronbuff.com/champions/brand/) 270 games +200 - 10 [Neeko](https://baronbuff.com/champions/neeko/) 208 games +183 - 11 [Morgana](https://baronbuff.com/champions/morgana/) 523 games +160 - 12 [Tahm Kench](https://baronbuff.com/champions/tahmkench/) 177 games +95 - 13 [Bard](https://baronbuff.com/champions/bard/) 240 games +68 - 14 [Seraphine](https://baronbuff.com/champions/seraphine/) 767 games +63 - 15 [Maokai](https://baronbuff.com/champions/maokai/) 148 games +58 ## How to play against Karma Lane and teamfight rules that hold regardless of your pick. ### In lane and in teamfights - Stand away from the wave when her empowered Q is available. Make her choose between pushing and landing poke on you. - Break her W tether by moving out early instead of trading through it. Denying the root removes her cleanest all-in setup. - Force her to spend empowered spells before the objective starts. Karma is much easier to engage when her team speed or shield burst is unavailable. - Attack from sides rather than walking through grouped poke. Her mid-game strength comes from controlling one lane of approach. - Wait out her team shield before committing major damage. Re-engage when the speed boost ends and her carries lose the reset window. ## Where Karma is weak Exploit these in draft and in lane. - Karma's power is front-loaded into empowered spell choices, so baiting one leaves clear engage windows. - Her poke and shields lose value in extended fights where stronger scaling carries outlast her early pressure. ## Karma counters: questions ### Who counters Karma in Support? At Gold+, Elise (55.9%), Rell (55.2%) and Galio (54.6%) have the highest win rates against Karma. ### Who does Karma counter? Karma wins most often against Ashe (40.3%), Hwei (41.1%) and Shen (45.6%). ### Who wins lane against Karma? By gold lead at 15 minutes, Vel'Koz (+408), Pyke (+404) and Pantheon (+370) come out of the laning phase furthest ahead of Karma. ### How is the counter list ranked? Best and worst picks use same-lane win rate; lane counters use the average gold difference at 15 minutes between the two laners. Both come from Ranked Solo/Duo at the selected rank with at least 100 games per matchup, and are not adjusted for champion strength. - [Support Tier List](https://baronbuff.com/champions/support/) - [Vel'Koz counters](https://baronbuff.com/champions/velkoz/counters/) - [Pyke counters](https://baronbuff.com/champions/pyke/counters/) ## Machine-Readable References - [LLM index](https://baronbuff.com/llms.txt) - [Full LLM reference](https://baronbuff.com/llms-full.txt) - [Sitemap](https://baronbuff.com/sitemap.xml)