Kayn vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Kayn
based on 4,919 Kayn vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayn vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Kayn vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Kayn
Tips for Playing as Kayn against Karma
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Advice to Win Against Karma
Focused Resolve is a strong disengage tool. Create distance to avoid being rooted and seek to engage afterwards.
Karma's Soulflare erupts for bonus damage in the area in which it's placed. React quickly and escape the circle to avoid taking heavy damage.
Karma's passive lowers her Mantra cooldown when she hits enemy champions with abilities and basic attacks. Deny her from getting free hits on you.
Kayn vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Kayn in LoL
The stats provided here feature some influential Kayn vs. Karma counter stats that may help you understand the distinctions between this set of champs. Kayn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kayn may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Karma. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Kayn normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Karma. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kayn and Karma
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Who is Better, Kayn or Karma?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kayn usually wins when facing off against Karma, with a 52.0% win rate. Therefore, Kayn makes a good counter for Karma.
While Kayn does have a higher win rate compared to Karma, when they face off with one another, Kayn also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kayn into Karmaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kayn also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Karma. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kayn vs Karma matchups, Kayn is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Kayn is a decent counter to Karma. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Kayn against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kayn in order to counter Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayn on average picks up less CS relative to Karma. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Kayn versus Karma build include Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Kayn used at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Karma than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Kayn boasted an average win rate of 52.0% when playing against Karma with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Karma as Kayn, you should take the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Kayn vs Karma fights, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.0% winrate overall.
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