Karmavs Shaco
Karma vs Shaco is a decisive matchup in LoL patch 26.10. Shaco wins with a 55.8% win rate (+11.6%) over Karma based on 43 games. Shaco wins the early laning phase while Karma scales better into the late game. Below you'll find the best Karma build, runes, laning stats, and strategies for the Karma vs Shaco matchup.
Karma Matchup Breakdown
Use the dropdown to select an opponent and see a detailed breakdown of how Karma performs against them. You'll get head-to-head win rates, laning stats, the best build and runes for the matchup, and early vs late game analysis — all based on real ranked data.
Shaco(44.2%)Who Wins the Karma vs Shaco Matchup?
Karma vs Shaco Matchup Summary
The Karma vs Shaco matchup is a decisive matchup in League of Legends ranked play. Based on 43 recent matches analyzed, Shaco wins with a 55.8% win rate compared to Karma's 44.2%, giving Shaco a 11.6 percentage point advantage. Game phase dynamics play a critical role here: Shaco controls the early laning stage, but Karma outscales as the game goes longer. The matchup shifts dramatically depending on game length — Shaco needs to press advantages before Karma reaches their power spikes, while Karma should focus on safe farming and hitting key item breakpoints. The most significant statistical gap is in damage output, where Shaco leads by 322 DMG/min — a difference that heavily influences the outcome of trades and skirmishes. Shaco has a strong advantage in this matchup. Karma players should play defensively, prioritize safe farming under tower, and look for opportunities created by jungle pressure or Shaco overextending. Avoid prolonged trades and wait for team fights where positioning and coordination matter more. Understanding these matchup dynamics is essential for champion select decisions and in-game strategy when facing this lane opponent.
Karma vs Shaco Laning Phase Breakdown
Shaco is favored during the laning phase against Karma, winning 4 out of 5 key stat categories. Shaco holds advantages in farming, damage, gold income and crowd control, making them the stronger laner in this matchup.
Best Karma Build Against Shaco
Ionian Boots of Lucidity is the optimal boots choice against Shaco, providing the mobility and stats Karma needs most in this matchup. The top-performing core items for Karma against Shaco are Echoes of Helia, Moonstone Renewer and Redemption. This combination gives Karma an effective balance of damage, survivability, and utility for the matchup. This build achieves a solid 50.0% win rate across 4 games, proving it to be a reliable item path when facing Shaco. Adjustments may be needed based on team compositions and game state, but this build provides the strongest foundation for the Karma vs Shaco matchup.
Early Game vs Late Game
Karma35.0%Shaco65.0%Karma52.2%Shaco47.8%Shaco dominates the early game (first 15 minutes) with a commanding 65.0% win rate — a 30.0 percentage point lead over Karma. This lopsided early game means Shaco can dictate the pace of the lane from level 1, controlling trades, wave state, and river priority.
In the late game (25+ minutes), Karma takes over with a 52.2% win rate, leading Shaco by 4.3 percentage points. Karma scales more effectively into team fights and objective contests.
This matchup features a dramatic power shift: Shaco must aggressively press their early advantage and close out the game before Karma reaches their scaling breakpoints. If Karma survives the laning phase without falling too far behind, the matchup flips in their favor. Dragon and Rift Herald control are pivotal — the team that secures early objectives can snowball or buy time to scale.
Best Karma Runes Against Shaco
Sorcery
Domination
The Sorcery and Domination rune setup gives Karma the best tools to compete against Shaco in this difficult matchup, compensating for the statistical disadvantages with optimal rune synergies.
Karma matchup data for League of Legends patch 26.10. The table below shows Karma's win rate, gold difference, and performance stats against every champion in the current meta. Click any champion name to see a detailed head-to-head breakdown including the best Karma build, runes, laning stats, and early vs late game analysis for that specific matchup.
Opponent | Win Rate | Matches | CS/min | DMG/min | Gold/game | Early WR | Late WR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51.84% | 353 | 1.3 | 364 | 8,526 | 52.5% | 51.3% | |
| 40.58% | 313 | 1.2 | 374 | 8,637 | 41.1% | 40.2% | |
| 46.42% | 265 | 1.3 | 383 | 8,738 | 40.8% | 49.7% | |
| 50.63% | 237 | 1.4 | 388 | 8,564 | 52.6% | 49.3% | |
| 45.61% | 228 | 1.3 | 422 | 8,831 | 47.4% | 44.3% | |
| 44.22% | 199 | 1.3 | 373 | 8,648 | 51.1% | 38.5% | |
| 46.75% | 154 | 1.2 | 363 | 8,665 | 50.8% | 43.8% | |
| 59.73% | 149 | 1.2 | 363 | 8,866 | 71.4% | 52.7% | |
| 52.52% | 139 | 1.2 | 376 | 8,555 | 56.7% | 49.4% | |
| 42.11% | 133 | 1.3 | 398 | 8,808 | 38.5% | 44.4% | |
| 50.40% | 125 | 1.3 | 408 | 8,903 | 50.9% | 50.0% | |
| 45.08% | 122 | 1.2 | 351 | 8,499 | 47.4% | 43.1% | |
| 43.10% | 116 | 1.3 | 373 | 8,841 | 35.4% | 48.5% | |
| 50.00% | 108 | 1.2 | 406 | 8,153 | 52.1% | 48.3% | |
| 49.06% | 106 | 1.2 | 361 | 8,179 | 52.0% | 46.4% | |
| 49.02% | 102 | 1.2 | 390 | 8,169 | 48.2% | 50.0% | |
| 50.55% | 91 | 1.2 | 444 | 7,968 | 54.5% | 44.4% | |
| 55.17% | 87 | 1.6 | 400 | 8,749 | 47.5% | 61.7% | |
| 51.72% | 87 | 1.4 | 375 | 9,174 | 45.7% | 55.8% | |
| 47.06% | 85 | 1.4 | 426 | 8,720 | 50.0% | 44.7% | |
| 54.76% | 84 | 1.4 | 338 | 8,576 | 66.7% | 45.8% | |
| 48.81% | 84 | 1.5 | 479 | 8,669 | 51.4% | 46.9% | |
| 47.14% | 70 | 1.4 | 343 | 8,619 | 48.5% | 46.0% | |
| 48.48% | 66 | 1.3 | 401 | 8,520 | 55.9% | 40.6% | |
| 49.23% | 65 | 1.2 | 357 | 8,888 | 48.1% | 50.0% | |
| 60.38% | 53 | 1.2 | 389 | 7,756 | 63.3% | 56.5% | |
| 45.10% | 51 | 1.0 | 342 | 8,425 | 41.7% | 48.1% | |
| 36.73% | 49 | 1.2 | 346 | 7,900 | 37.0% | 36.4% | |
| 65.31% | 49 | 1.6 | 439 | 9,188 | 76.2% | 57.1% | |
| 58.33% | 48 | 1.3 | 509 | 8,758 | 54.5% | 61.5% | |
| 52.17% | 46 | 1.2 | 411 | 7,891 | 73.1% | 25.0% | |
| 44.19% | 43 | 1.1 | 332 | 8,130 | 35.0% | 52.2% | |
| 43.90% | 41 | 1.3 | 416 | 8,770 | 34.8% | 55.6% | |
| 60.61% | 33 | 1.2 | 362 | 8,489 | 69.2% | 55.0% | |
| 56.25% | 32 | 2.4 | 468 | 9,612 | 60.0% | 54.5% | |
| 30.43% | 23 | 1.3 | 395 | 8,535 | 36.4% | 25.0% | |
| 42.86% | 21 | 2.1 | 474 | 10,224 | 57.1% | 35.7% | |
| 36.84% | 19 | 2.4 | 512 | 8,743 | 37.5% | 36.4% | |
| 47.37% | 19 | 1.3 | 385 | 9,034 | 50.0% | 45.5% | |
| 52.63% | 19 | 1.4 | 430 | 10,367 | 0.0% | 62.5% | |
| 44.44% | 18 | 1.6 | 409 | 8,538 | 33.3% | 50.0% | |
| 50.00% | 18 | 2.9 | 600 | 9,437 | 50.0% | 50.0% | |
| 37.50% | 16 | 5.5 | 662 | 11,178 | 40.0% | 36.4% | |
| 56.25% | 16 | 1.8 | 395 | 8,591 | 42.9% | 66.7% | |
| 50.00% | 16 | 5.2 | 704 | 10,377 | 50.0% | 50.0% | |
| 50.00% | 16 | 2.3 | 433 | 8,135 | 54.5% | 40.0% | |
| 40.00% | 15 | 2.1 | 521 | 9,381 | 42.9% | 37.5% | |
| 60.00% | 15 | 2.3 | 458 | 9,892 | 50.0% | 66.7% | |
| 38.46% | 13 | 5.7 | 699 | 9,163 | 12.5% | 80.0% | |
| 23.08% | 13 | 2.5 | 553 | 9,242 | 20.0% | 25.0% | |
| 46.15% | 13 | 3.8 | 714 | 10,502 | 40.0% | 50.0% | |
| 45.45% | 11 | 3.6 | 629 | 9,187 | 40.0% | 50.0% | |
| 36.36% | 11 | 4.9 | 656 | 10,290 | 75.0% | 14.3% | |
| 45.45% | 11 | 1.3 | 413 | 9,272 | 33.3% | 50.0% | |
| 40.00% | 10 | 5.3 | 650 | 9,167 | 42.9% | 33.3% | |
| 80.00% | 10 | 1.8 | 478 | 9,740 | 80.0% | 80.0% | |
| 60.00% | 10 | 3.0 | 447 | 9,572 | 33.3% | 71.4% | |
| 44.44% | 9 | 2.1 | 461 | 8,734 | 25.0% | 60.0% | |
| 44.44% | 9 | 4.2 | 704 | 9,330 | 25.0% | 60.0% | |
| 44.44% | 9 | 2.3 | 486 | 10,634 | 0.0% | 50.0% | |
| 33.33% | 9 | 1.1 | 279 | 7,905 | 25.0% | 40.0% | |
| 44.44% | 9 | 4.7 | 763 | 9,743 | 50.0% | 40.0% | |
| 50.00% | 8 | 4.0 | 688 | 12,455 | 100.0% | 42.9% | |
| 25.00% | 8 | 1.3 | 439 | 8,026 | 50.0% | 16.7% | |
| 42.86% | 7 | 2.1 | 454 | 9,922 | 0.0% | 60.0% | |
| 28.57% | 7 | 6.4 | 638 | 6,776 | 16.7% | 100.0% | |
| 42.86% | 7 | 1.3 | 430 | 7,301 | 50.0% | 33.3% | |
| 33.33% | 6 | 3.6 | 519 | 9,549 | 25.0% | 50.0% | |
| 50.00% | 6 | 5.4 | 1,085 | 11,018 | 25.0% | 100.0% | |
| 33.33% | 6 | 7.2 | 617 | 11,581 | 0.0% | 66.7% | |
| 33.33% | 6 | 1.5 | 374 | 9,589 | 33.3% | 33.3% | |
| 50.00% | 6 | 3.3 | 514 | 9,488 | 100.0% | 40.0% | |
| 33.33% | 6 | 3.5 | 655 | 10,302 | 50.0% | 25.0% | |
| 33.33% | 6 | 6.4 | 639 | 8,622 | 50.0% | 0.0% | |
| 80.00% | 5 | 1.8 | 427 | 8,719 | 66.7% | 100.0% | |
| 40.00% | 5 | 4.2 | 780 | 11,864 | 100.0% | 25.0% | |
| 0.00% | 5 | 2.6 | 355 | 6,689 | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
| 40.00% | 5 | 1.2 | 384 | 7,647 | 33.3% | 50.0% | |
| 60.00% | 5 | 5.8 | 507 | 8,838 | 50.0% | 66.7% | |
| 0.00% | 5 | 2.8 | 464 | 12,352 | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
| 60.00% | 5 | 5.0 | 765 | 12,134 | 0.0% | 75.0% | |
| 40.00% | 5 | 5.5 | 617 | 10,366 | 50.0% | 33.3% | |
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Karma vs Shaco - Frequently Asked Questions
How does Karma do against Shaco in League of Legends?
Shaco wins the Karma vs Shaco matchup with a 55.8% win rate compared to Karma's 44.2%, a 11.6 percentage point difference. This data is based on 43 recent ranked games in patch 26.10.
How does Karma do against Shaco in the early game?
In the early game, Shaco has the advantage against Karma with a 65.0% win rate versus 35.0%. Shaco players should look to press their lane advantage through aggressive trades and wave control during the first 15 minutes.
How does Karma do against Shaco in the late game?
In the late game, Karma takes over the Karma vs Shaco matchup with a 52.2% win rate compared to 47.8%. Karma scales better into team fights and objective contests after 25 minutes.
Who wins the Karma vs Shaco matchup?
Shaco wins the matchup against Karma with a 55.8% win rate in League of Legends patch 26.10. The 11.6 percentage point advantage means Shaco is significantly favored in this lane matchup based on 43 games analyzed.
What is the best Karma build against Shaco?
The best Karma build against Shaco includes Echoes of Helia, Moonstone Renewer, Redemption with Ionian Boots of Lucidity. This build achieves a 50.0% win rate in the matchup. Check the matchup breakdown above for the full item path and build order.
What are the best Karma runes against Shaco?
The best Karma runes against Shaco use the Sorcery primary tree with Domination secondary. This rune setup achieves a 100.0% win rate in the Karma vs Shaco matchup. See the full rune breakdown in the matchup comparison above.
Does Karma counter Shaco?
No, Karma struggles against Shaco with only a 44.2% win rate. Shaco has the advantage in this matchup. Karma players should focus on safe farming and avoiding extended trades to minimize Shaco's lead.
How do I play Karma against Shaco?
When playing Karma against Shaco, play cautiously and avoid Shaco's power spikes. Focus on safe farming — you outscale Shaco in the late game. Use the matchup-specific build and runes above to optimize your chances.