User blog comment:Typhron/Karma's Problems./@comment-10167113-20130827103127/@comment-60764-20130827150010

Honestly, I don't agree that the new Karma is good, but I do think that a slow on W and a second Mantra charge (or just the old Mantra with the new passive) would be much better than it's current form) would be better. And that maybe Riot isn't doing that because they're resistant to the idea of adding too much of the old Karma, which is a valid thing to consider. But I dunno.

The biggest problems with her old kit were what I listed and the new kit didn't fix those. The old Karma had a lot of AoE abilities so she could and did do damage safetly and while the new Karma doesn't require teamwork she DOES require the enemy team to actually use her abilities to her fullest (anti-teamwork?). It's hardly an upgrade in this regard, being more of a sidegrade in odd direction.