Karma vs Kindred
How to Beat Kindred as Karma
based on 1,928 Karma vs Kindred matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Kindred Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kindred as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Kindred
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 Kindred
When Kindred uses Lamb's Respite get inside, it stops all champions from dying.
Kindred is fragile - turn the pressure up on her, and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Clear the Hunts Wolf activates on jungle camps to slow down Kindred's damage output.
Karma vs Kindred Counter Stats
How to Counter Kindred with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some significant Karma versus Kindred matchup stats that can help us realize the differences between the pair. For instance, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kindred’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kindred. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Karma usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Kindred. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Kindred
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Who is Better, Karma or Kindred?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karma usually wins when facing off against Kindred, with a 51.0% win rate. As a result, Karma makes a good counter for Kindred.
While Karma does have a higher win rate compared to Kindred, when facing one another, Karma also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Karma into Kindred.
Additionally, Karma also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kindred. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Kindred matchups, Karma is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Karma is a decent counter for Kindred. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Kindred.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma in order to counter Kindred during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma typically accumulates more CS compared to Kindred. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Karma versus Kindred build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better versus Kindred than with most other typical builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 51.0% battling Kindred with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Kindred 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 runes players chose for Karma vs Kindred clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.0% winrate overall.
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