Karma vs Jayce
How to Beat Jayce as Karma
based on 1,529 Karma vs Jayce matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Jayce Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Jayce Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jayce as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Jayce
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 Jayce
Jayce is strong in the early game. If he gains the advantage, play defensively.
Jayce can attack in melee or at range. Pay attention to his stance and weapon color to know how he is going to attack.
If you see Jayce drop his Acceleration Gate, be careful, he is probably about to cast Shock Blast.
Karma vs Jayce Counter Stats
How to Counter Jayce with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some valuable Karma vs. Jayce counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between these two champs. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Jayce’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Jayce. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Karma typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Jayce. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Jayce
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Who is Better, Karma or Jayce?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when taking on Jayce, with a 49.2% win rate. Therefore, Karma makes an ok counter to Jayce.
While Karma does have a lower winrate compared to Jayce, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Karma into Jayce.
Moreover, Karma has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jayce. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karma vs Jayce matchups, Jayce is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter for Jayce. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Jayce.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma to counter Jayce during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma usually picks up less CS as Jayce. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Karma versus Jayce build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Jayce than with most other typical builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 49.2% battling Jayce with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Jayce as Karma, Karma players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Karma vs Jayce face-offs, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.2% win rate overall.
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