Brand vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Brand
based on 6,999 Brand vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Karma
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Brand in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some strategic Brand vs. Karma matchup statistics that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Karma..
Brand normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Karma. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Brand and Karma
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Who is Better, Brand or Karma?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Brand usually wins when facing off against Karma, with a 52.5% win rate. As a result, Brand makes a good counter for Karma.
While Brand does have a higher win rate than Karma, when they face off with one another, Brand also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Brand into Karma.
Furthermore, Brand also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Brand vs Karma matchups, Brand is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Brand is a good counter for Karma. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Brand against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Brand in order to counter Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Karma. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Brand versus Karma build include Cryptbloom, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better countering Karma than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average winrate of 52.5% battling Karma with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Karma as Brand, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Brand vs Karma face-offs, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Karma as Brand are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.