Karma vs Gwen
How to Beat Gwen as Karma
based on 2,084 Karma vs Gwen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Gwen Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gwen as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Gwen
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
Advice to Win Against Gwen
Gwen must hit something to recast her Ultimate, try to evade her between casts.
Gwen needs to attack a few times to set up her damage, so try to get the jump on her.
Gwen's Hallowed Mist shroud will only follow her once, after that it will dissipate when she leaves.
Karma vs Gwen Counter Stats
How to Counter Gwen with Karma in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several valuable Karma against Gwen matchup statistics that can help you figure out the differences between the pair. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gwen’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Gwen. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Karma usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she receives less damage than Gwen. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Gwen
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Who is Better, Karma or Gwen?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Gwen, with a 49.3% win rate. Thus, Karma makes an ok counter for Gwen.
While Karma does have a lower win rate compared to Gwen, when facing one another, Karma also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Gwen.
Furthermore, Karma has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gwen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Gwen matchups, Gwen is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter for Gwen. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Karma against Gwen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma in order to counter Gwen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma most often racks up less CS as Gwen. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Karma versus Gwen build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma included at least these three items in her build, she did much better against Gwen than with most other common builds. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 49.3% when countering Gwen with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Gwen as Karma, Karma players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Karma vs Gwen counterpicks, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Gwen as Karma are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.