Karma vs Hwei
How to Beat Hwei as Karma
based on 4,809 Karma vs Hwei matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Hwei Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Hwei Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Hwei as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Hwei
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 Hwei
After Hwei paints a Torment spell he is vulnerable to being rushed down.
Hwei needs to predict your positioning and take time to cast, catch him by surprise.
Hwei's lightning is deadly but slow; it deals more damage when you are alone or unable to move.
Karma vs Hwei Counter Stats
How to Counter Hwei with Karma in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several influential Karma vs. Hwei counter stats that can help us realize the differences between the two. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Hwei’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Hwei..
Karma often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Hwei. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Hwei
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Who is Better, Karma or Hwei?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Karma usually wins when trying to fight Hwei, with a 52.2% win rate. Therefore, Karma makes a good counter for Hwei.
While Karma does have a higher winrate than Hwei, when facing one another, Karma also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Karma into Hwei.
Moreover, Karma has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Hwei. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Hwei matchups, Karma is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Karma is an above average counter to Hwei. Focus your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Hwei.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karma to counter Hwei 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 suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma typically gets less CS relative to Hwei. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. 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, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Karma versus Hwei build include Ardent Censer, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma included at least these three items in her build, she did much better against Hwei than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 52.2% when countering Hwei with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing Hwei as Karma, Karma players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Karma vs Hwei counter picks, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.2% winrate overall.
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