Talk:Karma/@comment-25223119-20160602044740/@comment-25223119-20160610024243

The one thing I will disagree is how Karma is compared to Lulu. The comparison only started after her rework, and it pains me to listen when a player tells me to avoid Karma because she isn't a traditional mage when in actual fact, I've been playing her since S2.

You need to understand, Karma's rework was designed around the level of utility mages like Morgana/Orianna, where damage is still a primary element in them and utility second. Not the other way round like Lulu/Sona. Thus, she is supposed to be traditional mage in that she needs damage to function well because the dev team DOES intend for her to go mid like how Morgana would. There was a post in the boards discussing how Karma is lacking a niche, and half of the players think its fine for Karma to lack one. That's why Karma's balance is taken all over the places without any actual direction, and when the subclass was released, people are baffled why Karma is listed under the Battle Mage/Enchanter class.

I think any player can choose who they want to play and how they want to play. It feels disappointing when you told me not to pick Karma because she's not my traditional mage. It seems like a way of saying "I like Karma the way she is now, don't pick her and complain about her because she doesn't fit your idea of a mage.". That's one thing I notice about the users at Karma's wiki page, everyone likes her the way she is and doesn't want to see improvements made to her, pretty much everyone in here is in denial that Karma lacks a niche, when there are a portion of people at the boards who think otherwise.

Sorry to say, even though Karma is fundamentally healthy now. She is pretty much what Riot calls an "unfocused" champion with a kit that barely matches up to her battle mage/enchanter categorization. Riot wants her to be slotted in to a class so that when balancing comes in to perspective, they know how to balance her around. With Karma lacking a niche/class, they will have balancing difficulties and if they nerf/buff the wrong parts of her, it would only cause an uproar armongst Karma players.