Yuumi vs Karma — Support Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Yuumi against Karma · 51.45% win rate over 4,591 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Winnable despite the lane — Karma owns 4 of the 7 game windows to Yuumi's 3, yet the win rate favours Yuumi: survive their windows and the game is yours. Yuumi wins 51.45% of games vs Karma in support (4,591 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1YuumiLevel 1 favours you — attached poke and heal-tempo edge a low-mana Karma before Mantra scales.
Level 2YuumiLevel 2 favours you — your attach-Q spike out-pokes her while her Inner Flame is easily dodged.
Level 3YuumiLevel 3 favours you — sustained Q chip and heal uptime keep you ahead in the early poke war.
Levels 4-5KarmaLevels 4-5 favour Karma — Mantra-Q's empowered burst and Mantra-E shield out-range and out-mitigate you.
Level 6KarmaLevel 6 favours Karma — her always-online Mantra ult out-pokes and out-peels your comparatively weak Final Chapter.
First itemKarmaFirst item favours Karma — Malignance/Archangel's turns Mantra-Q into a nuke that pushes you off the wave.
Two+ itemsKarma2+ items favour Karma — layered RQ poke and AoE shield-speed disengage control the lane.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Levels 1-3 are yours: attached to your ADC you out-tempo a mana-limited Karma with steady Q-poke, and her Inner Flame is a lone skillshot you sidestep while her early Mantra ranks aren't enough to punish you.

Read the rest of this matchup

The full Yuumi 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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