User blog comment:Bouseherb/What about Karma?/@comment-80.144.234.35-20130320195117

I love Karma and always liked to play her. After having played her (especially with the traditional skin), I even started to like a few things about her new skills.

Nice:

- Her Q, though being a narrow skillshot that can be blocked by minions, has some nice AoE dmg.

- They kept her shield and turned it into an interesting escape skill - however, only for one target unless you mantra it.

- her snare in combination with her slow makes her probably a tough mage

What I don't like:

- high CD on only one Mantra charge. Her passive only works if you attack enemy champions (not minions) which makes it situational during early game and, imo, makes her a lot more difficult to play as a support (despite having more cc now).

- she can't heal allies - especially not the whole team - anymore. I will greatly miss that Heavenly Wave

- W-heal is very situational, as Q/E offer better mantra-bonuses (AoE-slow/-dmg or AoE-speed/-dmg).

Conclusion:

Someone who is used to old combos (even knew how to use her spirit bond effectively) needs to more or less learn a completely new champion. She doesn't have much left from the "old" Karma, imo.