Karma vs Hwei Counter Pick

Hwei is rated 9 for difficulty against Karma’s 5, and that execution gap shows up in the result: Karma wins 53.5% over 342 games on patch 16.13.1, which the difficulty model grades Easy.

• Three menus, three cooldowns. Subject: Disaster, Subject: Serenity and Subject: Torment each replace his abilities with a different set, so every cast requires two inputs. Punishing that delay is the core of the matchup.
• Karma’s answer is one button. Mantra is available from level one without a skill point, and Gathering Fire shortens its cooldown whenever a damaging ability lands.
• Durability favors Karma. 630 base health and 28 armor against 580 and 21, widening to 2,483 and 113 at level 18 against 2,433 and 100.9.

Hwei holds 550 attack range to Karma’s 525 and deals mixed damage, so a purely magic-resistant response leaves a gap open. His real threat is Signature of the Visionary, since a second damaging spell on a primed target completes the mark, which makes the first hit the one worth avoiding rather than the second. Inspire with Mantra shields a carry through that follow-up and adds movement speed for leaving the area, while Spiraling Despair punishes anyone who stays clustered. Trading during his ability-swap animation is the highest-value habit available. The full set of subject abilities is listed on the Hwei champion page.