Karma vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Karma
based on 3,256 Karma vs Lee Sin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Karma vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several important Karma vs. Lee Sin counter statistics that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lee Sin’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Lee Sin. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Karma often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes less damage than Lee Sin. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Lee Sin
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Who is Better, Karma or Lee Sin?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually wins when taking on Lee Sin, with a 51.3% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a good counter to Lee Sin.
While Karma does have a higher win rate compared to Lee Sin, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Lee Sin.
Moreover, Karma also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Lee Sin matchups, Karma is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Karma is a decent counter to Lee Sin. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karma to counter Lee Sin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma typically gets more CS compared to Lee Sin. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Karma versus Lee Sin build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Karma bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when fighting Lee Sin than with many other common builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 51.3% when countering Lee Sin with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Lee Sin as Karma, you 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 sets players picked for Karma vs Lee Sin LoL games, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.3% winrate overall.
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