Karma vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Karma
based on 6,999 Karma vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Brand
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
Advice to Win Against Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
Karma vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some critical Karma against Brand counter stats that can help us realize the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Brand’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Brand..
Karma often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Brand. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Brand
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Who is Better, Karma or Brand?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karma usually loses when trying to fight Brand, with a 47.5% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a poor counter for Brand.
While Karma does have a lower win rate compared to Brand, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Karma into Brand.
Furthermore, Karma has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Brand. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karma vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Karma is a bad counter to Brand. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Karma to counter Brand during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Brand. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Karma versus Brand build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Imperial Mandate, and Stormsurge. When Karma incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting Brand than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 47.5% when playing against Brand with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Brand as Karma, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Karma vs Brand battles, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.5% win rate overall.
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