Karma vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Karma
based on 6,309 Karma vs Lucian matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Lucian Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lucian as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Lucian
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 Lucian
Lucian cannot change the aim of The Culling. Take advantage of this by avoiding the angle of the bullets.
Lucian has strong burst, but little sustained damage.
Piercing Light does not give Lucian extra Attack Range. He still needs to find a target in range to line up his shot. Avoid Piercing Light by anticipating the angle Lucian will choose.
Karma vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Karma in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several critical Karma versus Lucian matchup stats that may help us explain the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lucian’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Lucian. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Karma usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Lucian. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Lucian
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Who is Better, Karma or Lucian?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when facing off against Lucian, with a 49.5% win rate. Therefore, Karma makes an ok counter for Lucian.
While Karma does have a lower winrate than Lucian, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Lucian.
Additionally, Karma has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lucian. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Lucian matchups, Lucian is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter to Lucian. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Karma against Lucian.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma to counter Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma on average gets less CS compared to Lucian. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Karma versus Lucian build include Morellonomicon, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better against Lucian than with most other typical builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 49.5% when playing against Lucian with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of beating Lucian as Karma, Karma players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Karma vs Lucian matchups, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Lucian as Karma are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.