Karma vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Karma
based on 3,460 Karma vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Xin Zhao
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 Xin Zhao
Xin Zhao relies heavily on his Three Talon Strikes for damage and cooldown resets, so preventing him from finishing his combo will have a dramatic effect.
Xin Zhao is a powerful initiator with both his charge and ultimate dealing damage to all units around him. Try having your team stay spread out until he's used his ultimate.
Karma vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Karma in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some significant Karma versus Xin Zhao matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences between the two. Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xin Zhao’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Xin Zhao. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Karma typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Karma or Xin Zhao?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karma usually loses when playing against Xin Zhao, with a 46.8% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a poor counter to Xin Zhao.
While Karma does have a lower win rate than Xin Zhao, when facing one another, Karma also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Karma into Xin Zhao.
Furthermore, Karma also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. 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 overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Karma is a terribly counter for Xin Zhao. Make sure you 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 Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karma to counter Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma typically gets more CS relative to Xin Zhao. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions 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, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Karma versus Xin Zhao build include Ardent Censer, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when facing Xin Zhao than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 46.8% when playing against Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Xin Zhao as Karma, Karma players should equip 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 players used for Karma vs Xin Zhao LoL games, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.8% win rate overall.
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