Sion vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Sion
based on 2,864 Sion vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sion vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Sion vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Sion
Tips for Playing as Sion against Karma
Roar of the Slayer is a great setup ability to land a very powerful Decimating Smash.
The Soul Furnace buff displays how much shield strength is remaining, use this information to time its explosion perfectly.
You only have very slight turning ability during Unstoppable Onslaught, so make sure to use it in straight paths.
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.
Sion vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Sion in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several critical Sion vs. Karma matchup stats that may help us grasp the distinctions between this set of champs. For instance, Sion’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Karma’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sion may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Karma..
Sion usually has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Karma. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sion and Karma
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Who is Better, Sion or Karma?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Sion usually wins when taking on Karma, with a 53.3% win rate. Therefore, Sion makes a great counter to Karma.
While Sion does have a higher win rate than Karma, when facing one another, Sion also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Sion into Karma.
Moreover, Sion also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sion vs Karma matchups, Sion is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Sion is a great counter for Karma. Focus your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Sion against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Sion to counter Karma during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sion most often accumulates more CS as Karma. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Sion versus Karma build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Titanic Hydra. When Sion combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Karma than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Sion had an average win rate of 53.3% battling Karma with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Karma as Sion, Sion players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Minion Dematerializer runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Sion vs Karma clashes, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.3% win rate overall.
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