Karma vs Jax
How to Beat Jax as Karma
based on 6,693 Karma vs Jax matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Jax Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Jax Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jax as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Jax
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 Jax
Try to engage him in short bursts instead of going toe-to-toe with him. Preventing him from attacking consecutively drastically lowers his damage output.
Jax can dodge all incoming attacks for a very short amount of time and stuns enemies in melee range when it ends. Wait to strike him until after his dodge is finished.
Karma vs Jax Counter Stats
How to Counter Jax with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several vital Karma versus Jax matchup statistics that can help you grasp the differences between the two. For instance, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Jax’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Jax. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Karma often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Jax. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Jax
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Who is Better, Karma or Jax?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually loses when trying to fight Jax, with a 48.7% win rate. As a result, Karma makes a bad counter to Jax.
While Karma does have a lower win rate compared to Jax, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Karma into Jax.
Additionally, Karma also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jax. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Jax matchups, Jax is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter for Jax. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Jax.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma in order to counter Jax during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma on average racks up less CS as Jax. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Karma versus Jax build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better versus Jax than with most other common item sets. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 48.7% battling Jax with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Jax as Karma, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Karma vs Jax counterpicks, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.7% win rate overall.
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