Karma vs Kayle
How to Beat Kayle as Karma
based on 2,879 Karma vs Kayle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Kayle Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Kayle Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayle as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Kayle
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 Kayle
Kayle starts the game as a weaker melee champion. Try to put her behind before she ascends to her ranged form.
Kayle is usually a fragile target. If you see her ultimate cast on an ally, switch to attacking her.
Divine Judgment only grants Kayle or her allies immunity to damage. Slows and stuns can still be applied, so trap them if they're being overzealous.
Karma vs Kayle Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayle with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several significant Karma versus Kayle matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kayle’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Kayle. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Karma normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Kayle. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Kayle
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Who is Better, Karma or Kayle?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Karma usually loses when taking on Kayle, with a 47.2% win rate. As a result, Karma makes a poor counter for Kayle.
While Karma does have a lower win rate than Kayle, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult character to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Karma into Kayle.
Moreover, Karma has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayle. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Kayle matchups, Kayle is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Karma is a garbage counter to Kayle. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Kayle.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Karma in order to counter Kayle during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma on average gets a lot less CS compared to Kayle. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot 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 important items to have in your Karma versus Kayle build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Cosmic Drive. When Karma combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Kayle than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 47.2% battling Kayle with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Kayle as Karma, Karma players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Karma vs Kayle counters, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.2% win rate overall.
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