How to win lane as Ornn against Karma · 53.28% win rate (3,585 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Weather the poke — brittle-proc her on the Focused Resolve cooldown and out-item the lane.
Track: Karma's W — Focused Resolve (12s cooldown). Her root tether — breaks if you LoS / outrange it.
Read from Ornn's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Karma.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | You have no shield and low HP at level 1, but she has no all-in either — last-hit outside Inner Flame's 950 range. |
| Level 2 | Ornn | W's percent-HP fire and shield outpace Inner Flame, and Focused Resolve's root cannot cancel it at level 2. |
| Level 3 | Ornn | Q-pillar plus W lets you trade through her RQ root — she cannot interrupt your unstoppable W, so you win every exchange. |
| Levels 4-5 | Ornn | E into your own Q-wall knocks her up and detonates Brittle before her E shield can save her. |
| Level 6 | Ornn | R is a long-range double knock-up into Brittle — on her Flash cooldown it is a guaranteed kill window she cannot escape. |
| First item | Ornn | Your first health item makes you tanky enough to ignore her Q poke and W-shove her off the wave under tower. |
| Two+ items | Ornn | Your W percent-HP, CC chain, and free Masterwork upgrades at 13 out-value a squishy enchanter whose only out is max range. |
Karma's Q poke stings at Levels 1-2 because you have no shield yet and your base HP is low, so just last-hit and refuse to chase her into RQ-root range. The moment you hit 3 the lane shifts: W makes you unstoppable while it exhales percent-HP fire and applies Brittle, and her RQ root cannot cancel it. Slam Q for a magma pillar so your E has a wall to knock her into, and start punishing every time she steps up to poke.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Ornn's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Ornn 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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Ornn, slightly — a 53.28% win rate edge over 3,585 games; execution can flip it.
Mostly — Ornn has a small statistical edge (53.28% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
Not a hard counter — Ornn has a slight edge (53.28% win rate), and play quality decides the rest.
Ornn takes Grasp of the Undying on the Resolve tree with Demolish, Second Wind and Overgrowth, and Precision secondary (Triumph and Legend: Haste) vs Karma.
Start Doran's Shield + Health Potion and back for Core component + boots (≈1300g). Build Iceborn Gauntlet (forge-upgradeable) first, then Sunfire Aegis, with Mercury's Treads.
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