Leona vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Leona
based on 3,225 Leona vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Karma
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Leona in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some influential Leona vs. Karma matchup stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Karma..
Leona usually has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Typically, she receives more damage than Karma. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Karma
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Who is Better, Leona or Karma?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when playing against Karma, with a 53.2% win rate. Thus, Leona makes a great counter to Karma.
While Leona does have a higher winrate than Karma, when facing one another, Leona also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Leona into Karma.
Moreover, Leona also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Karma. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Leona vs Karma matchups, Leona is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Leona is a great counter to Karma. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Leona against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Leona 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona typically picks up less CS as Karma. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Leona versus Karma build consist of Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better against Karma than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 53.2% when playing against Karma with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Karma as Leona, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Leona vs Karma matchups, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.2% win rate overall.
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