Karma vs Kai'Sa
How to Beat Kai'Sa as Karma
based on 3,894 Karma vs Kai'Sa matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Kai'Sa Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kai'Sa as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa
Kai'Sa is very vulnerable to getting outranged by mages and long range carries.
Make sure to place wards in your blind spots so you can see Kai'Sa coming.
Kai'Sa is very good at picking off isolated enemies. Stick together against her.
Karma vs Kai'Sa Counter Stats
How to Counter Kai'Sa with Karma in LoL
The stats provided here show several vital Karma against Kai'Sa matchup stats that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kai'Sa’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kai'Sa. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Karma normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Kai'Sa. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Kai'Sa
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Who is Better, Karma or Kai'Sa?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually wins when playing against Kai'Sa, with a 52.4% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a good counter for Kai'Sa.
While Karma does have a higher winrate compared to Kai'Sa, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Karma into Kai'Sa.
Additionally, Karma has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kai'Sa. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karma vs Kai'Sa matchups, Karma is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Karma is a good counter for Kai'Sa. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Kai'Sa.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma to counter Kai'Sa during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma most often racks up less CS as Kai'Sa. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Karma versus Kai'Sa build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Luden's Companion. When Karma used at least these three items in her build, she did much better versus Kai'Sa than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 52.4% when countering Kai'Sa with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Kai'Sa as Karma, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Karma vs Kai'Sa matchups, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.4% win rate overall.
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