Karma vs Syndra
How to Beat Syndra as Karma
based on 2,302 Karma vs Syndra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Syndra Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Syndra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Syndra as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Syndra
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 Syndra
Get boots early when playing against Syndra, they'll help you avoid many of her spells.
Attack Syndra after she's used Scatter the Weak, it has a long cooldown so she'll be vulnerable.
At max rank Syndra's spells gain bonus effects and change in appearance.
Karma vs Syndra Counter Stats
How to Counter Syndra with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some valuable Karma against Syndra counter stats that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Syndra’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Syndra. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Karma usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Syndra. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Syndra
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Who is Better, Karma or Syndra?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually wins when playing against Syndra, with a 51.3% win rate. As a result, Karma makes a good counter for Syndra.
While Karma does have a higher winrate compared to Syndra, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Karma into Syndra.
Furthermore, Karma also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Syndra. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Syndra matchups, Karma is the better champion 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 for Syndra. Focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Syndra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma to counter Syndra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma on average gets less CS compared to Syndra. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Karma versus Syndra build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma used at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better against Syndra than with most other common item sets. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 51.3% battling Syndra with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating Syndra as Karma, Karma players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Karma vs Syndra counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.3% winrate overall.
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