Syndra vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Syndra
based on 2,302 Syndra vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Syndra vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Syndra vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Syndra
Tips for Playing as Syndra against Karma
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
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.
Syndra vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Syndra in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some vital Syndra versus Karma matchup stats that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Syndra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Syndra may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Karma. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Syndra normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Karma. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Syndra and Karma
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Who is Better, Syndra or Karma?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Syndra usually loses when taking on Karma, with a 48.7% win rate. As a result, Syndra makes a bad counter for Karma.
While Syndra does have a lower win rate than Karma, when facing one another, Syndra also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Syndra into Karmaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Syndra has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Syndra vs Karma matchups, Karma is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Syndra is a somewhat poor counter to Karma. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Syndra against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Syndra in order to counter Karma during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Syndra most often racks up more CS compared to Karma. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Syndra versus Karma build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Syndra incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better against Karma than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Syndra boasted an average winrate of 48.7% battling Karma with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Karma as Syndra, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Syndra vs Karma face-offs, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.7% win rate overall.
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