Talk:Karma/@comment-1905446-20160630103258

The new Forbidden Idol items seem really nice on her support build. While +15% shield strength doesn't seem like a lot, stacking it with Windspeaker's Blessing boosts a max rank shield at 100 AP by 62.5 points. The 100 AP is a pretty doable number early assuming you brought AP quints and rush from EotW straight to Ardent Censer.

I could see Ardent Censer being worthwhile in solo lanes as well since the AP was buffed and Karma loves her move speed. Her heal scaling has always been really bad, and Censer alone gets her 324AP worth of heals at 160 AP (assuming 100 AP item into Censer), for a total heal of almost 25% each pop. It's not much, but pretty good for a heal that has a 1% AP scaling by default.

All in all, I think Ardent Censer in particular does a lot (on paper) to make Karma compete with other hybrid utility/damage mids and supports by adding scaling to the parts of her kit that scale the least.