Karma vs Xayah
How to Beat Xayah as Karma
based on 1,432 Karma vs Xayah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Xayah Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xayah as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Xayah
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 Xayah
Xayah's Bladecaller will only root targets hit by 3 or more returning Feathers.
Long fights in the same area with Xayah will allow her to drop a lot of Feathers. Try to stay on the move!
Make sure you are ready when you go for the kill. Untargetability from Featherstorm can quickly turn an ambush in Xayah's favor.
Karma vs Xayah Counter Stats
How to Counter Xayah with Karma in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some strategic Karma vs. Xayah matchup stats that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xayah’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Xayah. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Karma typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Xayah. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Xayah
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Who is Better, Karma or Xayah?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Karma usually wins when taking on Xayah, with a 52.2% win rate. Therefore, Karma makes a good counter for Xayah.
While Karma does have a higher winrate than Xayah, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Karma into Xayah.
Moreover, Karma also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xayah. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Xayah matchups, Karma is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Karma is an above average counter for Xayah. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Xayah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma in order to counter Xayah 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 listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma typically gets less CS as Xayah. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Karma versus Xayah build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better when facing Xayah than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 52.2% battling Xayah with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Xayah as Karma, Karma players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Karma vs Xayah clashes, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Xayah as Karma are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.