Karma vs K'Sante
How to Beat K'Sante as Karma
based on 1,992 Karma vs K'Sante matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs K'Sante Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Countering K'Sante as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against K'Sante
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 K'Sante
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Karma vs K'Sante Counter Stats
How to Counter K'Sante with Karma in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several significant Karma against K'Sante counter stats that may help you understand the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than K'Sante’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than K'Sante. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Karma normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she takes less damage than K'Sante. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and K'Sante
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Who is Better, Karma or K'Sante?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually wins when trying to fight K'Sante, with a 51.1% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a good counter to K'Sante.
While Karma does have a higher win rate compared to K'Sante, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Karma into K'Sante.
Moreover, Karma also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to K'Sante. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs K'Sante matchups, Karma is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Karma is a decent counter to K'Sante. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Karma against K'Sante.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karma in order to counter K'Sante during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn 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 by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma usually picks up less CS compared to K'Sante. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Karma versus K'Sante build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Karma used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better against K'Sante than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Karma had an average win rate of 51.1% when playing against K'Sante with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against K'Sante 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. Of all the rune sets players picked for Karma vs K'Sante counterpicks, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.1% win rate overall.
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