Karma vs Jinx
How to Beat Jinx as Karma
based on 4,902 Karma vs Jinx matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Jinx Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Jinx Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jinx as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Jinx
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 Jinx
Jinx's ultimate does less damage the closer you are to her.
Jinx's minigun takes time to ramp up. If you see her poking with rockets try to jump on her and burst her down.
Jinx's snare grenades have a long cooldown and are her primary means of protecting herself. If she misses with them she will have a hard time escaping if engaged upon.
Karma vs Jinx Counter Stats
How to Counter Jinx with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some critical Karma against Jinx matchup stats that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jinx’s ratio of NaN, showing that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Jinx. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Karma often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Jinx. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Jinx
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Who is Better, Karma or Jinx?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Jinx, with a 49.5% win rate. As a result, Karma makes an ok counter to Jinx.
While Karma does have a lower winrate than Jinx, when facing one another, Karma also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Jinx.
Furthermore, Karma has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jinx. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Jinx matchups, Jinx is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter for Jinx. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Jinx.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma to counter Jinx during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma most often accumulates less CS as Jinx. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Karma versus Jinx build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Redemption, and Ardent Censer. When Karma bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better versus Jinx than with most other typical builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 49.5% when playing against Jinx with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Jinx as Karma, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Karma vs Jinx counterpicks, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Jinx as Karma are given for all skill levels combined. To filter the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.