How to win lane as Thresh against Karma · 53.91% win rate over 12,721 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Karma | Level 1 favors Karma: her ranged Mantra-RQ poke out-reaches your Hook. |
| Level 2 | Karma | At 2 Karma stays ahead, rooting and chipping you from safety. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | By 3 it evens as Flay lets you punish her step-ups. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Through 4-5 the poke-versus-all-in trade is a skill coinflip. |
| Level 6 | Thresh | At 6 you spike ahead since Karma has no ult power spike to answer yours. |
| First item | Thresh | First item favors you as your engage burst overwhelms her RE shield. |
| Two+ items | Thresh | With 2+ items you stay ahead, converting every Hook catch into a kill. |
Karma bullies levels 1-2: her Mantra-empowered RQ roots and detonates from outside your Hook range, so she chips you and your ADC while you have no way to close the gap safely.
The full Thresh vs Karma report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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