Karma vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Karma
based on 1,410 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.
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.
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.
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 stat comparisons shown here highlight several strategic Karma against Xin Zhao matchup stats that can help you appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Xin Zhao. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Karma normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes less damage than Xin Zhao. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Karma or Xin Zhao?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Karma usually wins when facing off against Xin Zhao, with a 52.1% win rate. Thus, Karma makes a good counter to Xin Zhao.
While Karma does have a higher winrate compared to Xin Zhao, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Karma into Xin Zhao.
Additionally, Karma has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Karma vs Xin Zhao matchups, Karma is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Karma is a good counter for Xin Zhao. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karma against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karma to counter Xin Zhao during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma usually racks up a similar amount of CS as Xin Zhao. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Karma versus Xin Zhao build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Shard of True Ice, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better against Xin Zhao than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 52.1% when playing against Xin Zhao with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Xin Zhao as Karma, Karma players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, 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 Xin Zhao counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.1% win rate overall.
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