Talk:Karma/Strategy/@comment-5900011-20130408031115/@comment-5955640-20130411162203

Ugh, Why must you say things like that? Being a support is more than just healing people. How many actual supports do that these days? It's about directly assisting your allys with things that are benefical to them. It begins at healing them. Which if you really need to heal them just take that paticular summoner spell or a crucible with you. But it's so much more than that.

Sheilds, Buffs, CC, All those things you need to be a good support. Not every support will have all those things but having some things is more useful than others. Healing is not a great support power. It just sustains you in lane. Which means the carry has to really be a strong pusher and that might mean dealing with his opponents. The carry hoping to poke and the support who is always trying to harass. When you are playing as Soraka and the opposing support is Thresh. It is Thresh who presents the advantage for his carry.

Lets talk about what makes this new karma a good support.

Her Q is the tool she can harass with. She couldn't harass with heavenly wave because it was usually saved for heals (and it's range wasn't very good when facing ranged opponents). This one does far more damage and can slow the target and deal additional damage when empowered by mantra. This is supportive because your carry needs to have an open target to shoot. Being on a slowing field that does damage to them forces the carry to momentarily fall back where upon your carry can poke them a bit for damage. Later on in the game this becomes a useful AOE to deal damage to the whole enemy group during a teamfight and could be used to solidfy an escape as well.

The W is a setup tool. While it has trading uses in mid lane as a support ability it's just to make ganks more effective and to restrict someone from running when you and your allies have commited to killing that target. The snare is. Well it's just good. If they focus on you the W can punish them and if they aren't focusing on you all the more reason to snare them while their guard is down.

Finally the E. It's less powerful as a single target sheild but is argueably more effective in protecting allies as it's empowered form can shield several people. the burst in speed makes it a strong intiation, chase, or escape tool. You can still hurt people in a tight skirmish though but as we've said. You have a far more reliable way of dealing damage to people.

Do you understand more throughly why I consider your opinion as ill wrought now?