Lee Sin vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Lee Sin
based on 3,256 Lee Sin vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lee Sin vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Lee Sin vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin against Karma
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
Lee Sin vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Lee Sin in LoL
The stats shown here show some important Lee Sin against Karma counter statistics that may help us interpret the distinctions between these two champs. Lee Sin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Lee Sin may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Karma. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Lee Sin often has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Karma. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lee Sin and Karma
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Who is Better, Lee Sin or Karma?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Lee Sin usually loses when facing off against Karma, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Lee Sin makes a bad counter for Karma.
While Lee Sin does have a lower win rate than Karma, when on opposite teams, Lee Sin also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Lee Sin into Karma.
Additionally, Lee Sin has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Lee Sin vs Karma matchups, Karma is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Lee Sin is a somewhat poor counter for Karma. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Lee Sin against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Lee Sin to counter Karma during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lee Sin typically accumulates less CS compared to Karma. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Lee Sin versus Karma build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Death's Dance. When Lee Sin used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Karma than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lee Sin boasted an average win rate of 48.7% when playing against Karma with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Karma as Lee Sin, Lee Sin players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Lee Sin vs Karma fights, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.7% win rate overall.
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