Lux vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Lux
based on 10,619 Lux vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lux vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Lux vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Lux
Tips for Playing as Lux against Karma
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Lux in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some critical Lux versus Karma counter statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. For instance, Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Karma..
Lux typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Karma. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Lux or Karma?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Lux usually wins when trying to fight Karma, with a 51.1% win rate. Therefore, Lux makes a good counter for Karma.
While Lux does have a higher win rate than Karma, when on opposite teams, Lux also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Lux into Karma.
Additionally, Lux has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lux vs Karma matchups, Lux is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Lux is a decent counter for Karma. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Lux against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Lux to counter Karma 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 stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Karma. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Lux versus Karma build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Horizon Focus, and Luden's Companion. When Lux combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better countering Karma than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Lux boasted an average winrate of 51.1% battling Karma with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Karma as Lux, Lux players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Lux vs Karma counters, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.1% winrate overall.
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