Karma vs Kayn
How to Beat Kayn as Karma
based on 4,919 Karma vs Kayn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Kayn Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayn as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Kayn
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 Kayn
When Kayn is in terrain near you, you will get a visual warning on the edge of the terrain he's in.
Umbral Trespass requires Kayn to damage a target first. Try to dodge Blade's Reach to deny him a long range cast of Umbral Trespass.
Damage Kayn while he's in Shadow Step to shorten its duration, or apply hard crowd control (stun, charm, knockup, etc) to end Shadow Step immediately.
Karma vs Kayn Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayn with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some strategic Karma vs. Kayn counter stats that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kayn’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kayn. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Karma usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Kayn. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Kayn
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Who is Better, Karma or Kayn?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Karma usually loses when playing against Kayn, with a 48.0% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a poor counter to Kayn.
While Karma does have a lower win rate compared to Kayn, when facing one another, Karma also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Karma into Kayn.
Furthermore, Karma also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayn. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karma vs Kayn matchups, Kayn is the better champ 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 terribly counter to Kayn. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Kayn.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karma in order to counter Kayn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma on average racks up more CS compared to Kayn. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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 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 top items to use in your Karma versus Kayn build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Karma incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting Kayn than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 48.0% when countering Kayn with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Kayn 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. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Karma vs Kayn face-offs, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.0% winrate overall.
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