The Complete Guide to Karma: League of Legends Champion

Name: The Complete Guide to Karma: League of Legends Champion
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Play with Karma to dominate the laning phase, team fights, and vision control with Challenger/Twitch Partner, Lohpally!

Created byLVLUP Dojo, Derek Abrams

Last updated 6/2018

English

What you'll learn

Gain a better understanding of Karma's support role
Dominate the laning phase
Gain insight on good teamfights
Improve your vision control
Boost your rank

Course content

5 sections • 20 lectures • 1h 13m total length

Introduction1:07
In the first video for Lohpally’s League of Legends course on Karma, your instructor is going to introduce himself and provide an overview of what he will be covering throughout this course. Enjoy!

Karma's Mantra + Q Ability1:46
In this lecture, Lohpally introduces Karma’s Q ability and shows you examples of how it is used effectively.
Karma's Mantra + W Ability0:53
In this lecture, Lohpally introduces Karma’s W ability and shows you examples of how it is used effectively.
Karma's Mantra + E Ability (Self Cast)0:46
In this lecture, Lohpally introduces Karma’s E ability, specifically self-casting or on teammate, and shows you examples of how it is used effectively.
Karma's Mantra + E Ability (Enemy Cast)0:53
In this lecture, Lohpally introduces Karma’s E ability, specifically casting on enemies, and shows you examples of how it is used effectively.
Runes/Masteries & Summoner Skills4:16
This lecture will cover the optimal Runes & Masteries. Lohpally explains the best runes to take with Karma while providing alternative Runes & Summoner Skills and item paths to take depending on the matchup (Match-Up & Item lectures coming up next).
Karma Matchups1:51
This lecture will cover Karma’s best and worse matchups. Lohpally provides in-depth details on champions that Karma counters and champions that counter Karma. Remember, this lecture will go hand-in-hand with Lectures 6 & 8 (Runes & Masteries / Item Builds).
Item Builds2:29
Now that you have covered Lectures 6 & 7, this lecture will cover the item builds for Karma. Lohpally will explain the best item paths to take depending on enemy matchup.

Playing Aggressive & Applying Pressure8:25
In this lecture, Lohpally will cover the early game laning phase, including what masteries you should be taking to play an aggressive lane. In addition, Lohpally will explain his process throughout the laning phase and how/why decisions are made. The matchup used for this specific lecture is against Ezreal and Nami.
Trading Effectively & Playing Against Healers7:11
In this lecture, Lohpally will cover the early game laning phase, including what masteries you should take when playing against a healer lane. In addition, Lohpally will explain his process throughout the laning phase and how/why decisions are made. The matchup used for this specific lecture is against Kai’Sa and Soraka.
Managing Waves & Decision Making8:13
In this lecture, Lohpally will cover the early game laning phase, including what masteries you take when playing against a healer & poke lane. In addition, Lohpally will explain how to effectively manage your waves and decision making on the spot for specific situations. The matchup used for this specific lecture is against Jihn and Nami.
Best Practices for Early Game Vision Control8:06
In this lecture, Lohpally will show you the art of warding in the early game, including when you should be warding and the best spots for warding depending on which side you play on.
Activity: Q Harass0:22
In this activity, Lohpally wants you to practice using the Q ability for lane harassment. Go into a custom game and see how Mantra Q works.
Activity: Quick Skill Up0:22
In this activity, Lohpally wants to you learn and get used to using CTRL + (Q/W/E/R) for a quicker skill up over clicking.

Absorbing Pressure For Your Team3:56
In this lecture, Lohpally will break down teamfights for you in a variety of scenarios and examples. In this particular example, Lohpally points out the importance of taking away pressure from your carries and zoning out your enemy.
Positioning & Applying Pressure4:40
In this lecture, Lohpally will break down teamfights for you in a variety of scenarios and examples. In this particular example, Lohpally breaks down a Baron contest by identifying enemy positioning and using Karma’s ability to apply pressure before teamfight begins. Another thing to note: make sure you follow-up on your teammates.
Taking Advantage of Opponent Mistakes & Protecting Carries4:19
In this lecture, Lohpally will break down teamfights for you in a variety of scenarios and examples. In this particular example, Lohpally breaks down a team fight where the enemy over-extended and how his team punished them for it. In addition, Lohpally absorbs as much damage as he can for his teammates and constantly creates pressure by using W ability on teammates.
Activity: Flash Mantra + Q0:29
In this activity, Lohpally wants you to get used to the Mantra Q ability distance with your Flash and start initialing teamfights for your team.
Best Practices for Mid-Late Game Vision Control13:02
In this lecture, Lohpally will continue to cover vision control from Mid-Game and beyond. Feel free to go back to the “ Best Practices for Early Game Warding” lecture for references.

Requirements

Have some knowledge on League of Legends, basics of playing, and understanding of the game.

Description

The role of Support in League of Legends is arguably the easiest to learn and the hardest to master. As League of Legends players, we have all experienced the struggles that come with an unbalanced team, especially in the absence of a solid support player. In this course you will discover that the role of support is more than just warding for your team and assisting your ADC in lane. Support heroes are the backbone of breakout team fights and often determine the outcome based on their ability to play the role properly, so mastering the skills associated with support heroes will be a core focus of this course.

If you are considering picking up a new champion to play with, Karma would be a good stable choice in these fast-paced meta changing days. In 2018, League of Legends has rolled out patches that have been a complete game changer; you might find one week you are on a winning spree and the next week you are losing in bunches. Karma’s offensive and defensive abilities make her versatile and adaptable. Her shield and speedup ability make her one of the most resistant champions, whether it's against aggressive or poke champions. Not to mention, her shield and speedup works on all your allies if you combo it with Mantra (R), giving her the ability to help your team engage and disengage. Her Mantra (R) and Q ability make her one of the best at poking out your enemy in lane or team fights.

Your instructor, Lohpally, is a challenger tier Support player and partnered streamer on Twitch. Lohpally has been playing League of Legends since the game was released in 2009 and has been in Challenger tier every season following the launch of the game. Lohpally’s professional career includes playing for teams such as: Curse, Complexity, and Winterfox. Currently, Lohpally focuses on educational streams on Twitch and coaching. He has experience coaching players from a variety of levels ranging from players who are new to the game to players on top LCS teams such as Cloud 9 & Fnatic.

In this course, you learn the basic combos of Karma and the 3 important aspects to playing Karma well:

Laning Phase

Matchup vs Defensive, Aggressive, & Poke Champions
Trading Effectively
Apply Pressure

Team Fights

Positioning
Applying Pressure
Peeling for Your Team
Taking Advantage of Mistakes

Vision Control

Early Game Vision Best Practices
Mid-Late Game Vision Best Practices
Avoiding Ganks

Please enjoy Lohpally’s Karma course and hopefully you can level up your game!

Who this course is for:

Beginning players (under level 30) looking to learn more about the support role.
Intermediate players (over level 30) looking to learn a new support champion to play.
Competitive players looking for in-depth help in improving their ranks.

The Complete Guide to Karma: League of Legends Champion

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 1min

Introduction to Karma Abilities and Combos7 lectures • 13min

Laning Phase6 lectures • 33min

Team Fights5 lectures • 26min

Outro1 lecture • 1min

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