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.
Pantheon's Aegis Assault makes him invulnerable from the front. Get behind him or wait it out.
Grand Starfall gives several seconds of warning before Pantheon arrives. Use this time to get out of the way or to form a plan to deal with him.
Be careful near Pantheon if your health is low - a thrown Comet Spear executes low health enemies.
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some influential Karma against Pantheon matchup statistics that can help us understand the distinctions between the two. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Pantheon’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Pantheon. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Karma normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Pantheon. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Karma usually loses when facing off against Pantheon, with a 47.6% win rate. Therefore, Karma makes a poor counter for Pantheon.
While Karma does have a lower win rate than Pantheon, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Karma into Pantheon.
Additionally, Karma has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Pantheon. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Pantheon matchups, Pantheon is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Karma is a terribly counter to Pantheon. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Pantheon.
If you would like to truly master Karma to counter Pantheon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma usually racks up less CS as Pantheon. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Karma versus Pantheon build include Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Karma bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs. Pantheon than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 47.6% when playing against Pantheon with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Pantheon as Karma, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Karma vs Pantheon counters, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.6% win rate overall.
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