Pantheon vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Pantheon
based on 4,533 Pantheon vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pantheon vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Pantheon vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Pantheon
Tips for Playing as Pantheon against Karma
Mortal Will activates after 5 spells or basic attacks - plan your way through fights to allow you to activate it more than once.
Whittle the enemy down with Comet Spears before you jump in.
If an enemy is going to get out of range of your Aegis Assault, you can recast the spell to immediately fire the shield slam.
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.
Pantheon vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Pantheon in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some strategic Pantheon vs. Karma counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences between the two. As an example, Pantheon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Pantheon 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.
Pantheon often has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Karma. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Pantheon and Karma
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Who is Better, Pantheon or Karma?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Pantheon usually wins when trying to fight Karma, with a 52.4% win rate. As a result, Pantheon makes a good counter for Karma.
While Pantheon does have a higher winrate than Karma, when on opposite teams, Pantheon also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Pantheon into Karma.
Furthermore, Pantheon also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Karma. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Pantheon vs Karma matchups, Pantheon is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Pantheon is an above average counter for Karma. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Pantheon against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Pantheon in order to counter Karma during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pantheon on average racks up more CS relative to Karma. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Pantheon versus Karma build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Pantheon used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better against Karma than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Pantheon had an average win rate of 52.4% battling Karma with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Karma as Pantheon, Pantheon players should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Pantheon vs Karma counters, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.4% winrate overall.
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