Kindred vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Kindred
based on 1,928 Kindred vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kindred vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Kindred vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Kindred
Tips for Playing as Kindred against Karma
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
Advice to Win Against Karma
Focused Resolve is a strong disengage tool. Create distance to avoid being rooted and seek to engage afterwards.
Karma's Soulflare erupts for bonus damage in the area in which it's placed. React quickly and escape the circle to avoid taking heavy damage.
Karma's passive lowers her Mantra cooldown when she hits enemy champions with abilities and basic attacks. Deny her from getting free hits on you.
Kindred vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Kindred in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several influential Kindred versus Karma matchup statistics that can help you understand the differences and similarities between these two champions. Kindred’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kindred may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Karma. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Kindred normally has a much larger longest kill spree than their opponent does. On average, they receives more damage than Karma. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kindred and Karma
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Who is Better, Kindred or Karma?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kindred usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Karma, with a 49.0% win rate. Thus, Kindred makes an ok counter for Karma.
While Kindred does have a lower winrate compared to Karma, when on opposite teams, Kindred also has a lower level of difficulty that makes them a less time consuming champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Kindred into Karma.
Furthermore, Kindred also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kindred vs Karma matchups, Karma is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Kindred is a somewhat poor counter to Karma. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kindred against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kindred in order to counter Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kindred on average gets less CS compared to Karma. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Kindred versus Karma build include Blade of The Ruined King, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kindred included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better countering Karma than with many other common builds. In fact, Kindred had an average winrate of 49.0% when playing against Karma with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Karma as Kindred, you should use the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Kindred vs Karma counter picks, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.0% win rate overall.
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