Swain vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Swain
based on 3,733 Swain vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Karma
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.
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.
Swain vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Swain in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some important Swain versus Karma counter stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Karma..
Swain typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Karma. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Karma
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Who is Better, Swain or Karma?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Swain usually fairs equally well when taking on Karma, with a 50.6% win rate. As a result, Swain makes an ok counter for Karma.
While Swain does have a higher win rate than Karma, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Swain into Karmaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Swain has some 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 Swain vs Karma matchups, Swain is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Swain is a decent counter to Karma. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Swain against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to counter Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain typically picks up more CS as Karma. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Swain versus Karma build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs. Karma than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 50.6% when countering Karma with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Karma as Swain, Swain players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Swain vs Karma face-offs, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.6% winrate overall.
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