Talk:Karma/@comment-26580454-20150807101047/@comment-25223119-20150809141556

Lux's Q can be body blocked with ease. And again, despite mentioning Karma's R->Q has clear risks, it goes against Riot's philosophies of balance which in this case, is power locking and binary playstyle. AP Karma has only one way to play and only way to be countered, she either lands R->Q or misses R->Q.

There is nothing balanced about that when we talk about balancing from a designing perspective. But when put in to game, is she absolutely balanced? Yes, balanced in gameplay, in that when she misses R->Q as an APC, she is a sitting duck. No amount of Gathering Fire talks can justify loading 150% of ratio worth in to one skill, simply because Riot doesn't think it's a healthy distribution of power either. She is balanced in a binary manner, and Riot doesn't like binary.