Karma vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Karma
based on 3,225 Karma vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Karma vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Karma in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several critical Karma against Leona counter statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between this pair of champs. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Leona..
Karma typically has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. On average, she receives less damage than Leona. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Leona
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Who is Better, Karma or Leona?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Karma usually loses when facing off against Leona, with a 46.8% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a poor counter for Leona.
While Karma does have a lower winrate compared to Leona, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Karma into Leona.
Additionally, Karma also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Karma is a garbage counter for Leona. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma in order to counter Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma most often gets more CS as Leona. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Karma versus Leona build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Mikael's Blessing, and Dream Maker. When Karma used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better against Leona than with most other common item sets. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 46.8% battling Leona with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Leona as Karma, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Karma vs Leona face-offs, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.8% win rate overall.
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