Karma vs Lissandra
How to Beat Lissandra as Karma
based on 1,240 Karma vs Lissandra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Lissandra Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Lissandra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lissandra as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Lissandra
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 Lissandra
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
Karma vs Lissandra Counter Stats
How to Counter Lissandra with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some critical Karma vs. Lissandra matchup stats that can help us distinguish the differences between this pair of champions. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lissandra’s ratio of NaN, showing that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Lissandra..
Karma normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she takes less damage than Lissandra. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Lissandra
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Who is Better, Karma or Lissandra?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually loses when playing against Lissandra, with a 47.9% win rate. Therefore, Karma makes a poor counter to Lissandra.
While Karma does have a lower win rate compared to Lissandra, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champ to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Karma into Lissandra.
Furthermore, Karma has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lissandra. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Karma vs Lissandra matchups, Lissandra is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Karma is a terribly counter to Lissandra. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Lissandra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Karma to counter Lissandra during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma on average gets less CS as Lissandra. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Karma versus Lissandra build include Ardent Censer, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Karma included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting Lissandra than with most other typical builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 47.9% when playing against Lissandra with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Lissandra as Karma, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Karma vs Lissandra battles, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.9% winrate overall.
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