Karma vs Lux
How to Beat Lux as Karma
based on 10,619 Karma vs Lux matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Lux Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Lux as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Lux
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 Lux
When retreating with low health, be prepared to dodge Lux's Final Spark, a red targeting beam fires prior to the main beam, so try to move to the side if possible.
Lux has powerful zone control abilities. Try to spread out and attack from different directions so she cannot lock down a specific area.
Karma vs Lux Counter Stats
How to Counter Lux with Karma in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some important Karma versus Lux matchup statistics that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lux’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Lux..
Karma typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives more damage than Lux. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Lux
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Who is Better, Karma or Lux?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Karma usually loses when taking on Lux, with a 48.9% win rate. Therefore, Karma makes a bad counter to Lux.
While Karma does have a lower winrate compared to Lux, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Karma into Lux.
Additionally, Karma has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lux. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Lux matchups, Lux is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter to Lux. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Lux.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Karma in order to counter Lux during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Lux. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, 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 require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Karma versus Lux build consist of Ardent Censer, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs Lux than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 48.9% when countering Lux with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Lux as Karma, you should take the Arcane Comet, Nimbus Cloak, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Karma vs Lux counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.9% win rate overall.
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