User blog comment:Zeowolf0/Champion Appreciation Week - Karma/@comment-1488423-20130324010003

Original Karma was a great champ for baiting, harrassing, kiting, bursting, healing, and shielding. She may not have been the greatest champ, and her highest damage dealing ability was hard to use, but I think she was a better champ than most people, Riot included, gave her credit for.

That being said I absolutely love New Karma as well. I've enjoyed playing her on PBE. Her Q does a ton of damage if you hit the Mantra'd version completely. W will help you hit the Mantra Q very much. The Mantra W will heal you for quite a bit and is an overall decent DoT. Her new E is no where near as ridiculous on the burst and shielding amount, but since you can now shield multiple people with the mantra'd version, it makes up for it a bit.

I will miss her old mega-baiting passive. Although her new one fits her new kit a lot better than the old one would. My only problem with New Karma is her voice, I'm going to be sticking to the Traditional Karma skin because of it. I prefer her matronly calm voice to the generic tomboy tough-girl voice.

Overall, Karma was good before, and is good now.