Karma vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Karma
based on 3,733 Karma vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Swain
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 Swain
Buying an item with Grievous Wounds will make Swain much easier to kill during his Demonic Ascension.
Swain's passive is very potent if you are immobilized. Make sure to be extra careful around enemies who have immobilizing effects.
High mobility counters all of Swain's basic abilities: Death's Hand does more damage the closer he is, Vision of Empire has a very long delay and Nevermove must start returning back to him to be dangerous.
Karma vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Karma in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several vital Karma against Swain counter stats that may help you appreciate the differences between the pair. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Swain..
Karma normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Swain. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karma and Swain
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Who is Better, Karma or Swain?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Karma usually fairs equally well when playing against Swain, with a 49.4% win rate. Thus, Karma makes an ok counter to Swain.
While Karma does have a lower win rate compared to Swain, when on opposite teams, Karma also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Karma into Swain.
Moreover, Karma has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Swain. This 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 Swain matchups, Swain is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Karma is a somewhat poor counter to Swain. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma in order to counter Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma usually gets less CS relative to Swain. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Karma versus Swain build consist of Dream Maker, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Swain than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 49.4% when playing against Swain with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Swain as Karma, you 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 rune combinations we have analyed for Karma vs Swain LoL games, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Swain as Karma are shown for every ranked division. To scope the stats and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.