Lucian vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Lucian
based on 6,309 Lucian vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lucian vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Lucian vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Lucian
Tips for Playing as Lucian against Karma
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
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.
Lucian vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Lucian in LoL
The stats provided here feature several influential Lucian versus Karma matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Lucian’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Karma’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Lucian may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Karma. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Lucian normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Karma. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lucian and Karma
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Who is Better, Lucian or Karma?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lucian usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Karma, with a 50.5% win rate. As a result, Lucian makes an ok counter to Karma.
While Lucian does have a higher winrate compared to Karma, when facing one another, Lucian also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Lucian into Karma.
Furthermore, Lucian also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Karma. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lucian vs Karma matchups, Lucian is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Lucian is a decent counter for Karma. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Lucian against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Lucian to counter Karma during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lucian often gets more CS as Karma. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Lucian versus Karma build consist of Bloodthirster, Rapid Firecannon, and Kraken Slayer. When Lucian incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Karma than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Lucian had an average win rate of 50.5% when countering Karma with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Karma as Lucian, Lucian players should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Lucian vs Karma matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Karma as Lucian are displayed for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.