Talk:Karma/@comment-4636093-20150516141238/@comment-5256197-20150518125758

Well, now that crying about Karma is again a thing, I'd like to share my toughts on her.

I am one of those who cried when they remade her, and am still kinda sad they replaced a champion instead of just making a new one.

My biggest thing about the rework was how they made her into a generic mage type champion, she didn't retain anything from the feel she had before. I liked how to think ahead of how to use my two ult charges (though they usually were E and Q, but I'm not talking about the balance here), I liked to think how to best use the W to either have the best peel or to apply the damage, or how to cast it to have my entire team run faster, I liked I could heal my team out of battle and how to maximize its potential by good positioning (especially with bruiser teams!), I liked how her shield was the beefiest shield in game after Janna, I liked how I could get an extra bang for my buck at low health, and of course I liked the shield bomb (which seems to be absent from the next Karma iteration).

I'm positive they could've made that old kit work with modifications.

And speaking of klucky abilities, her W is awful to use since you can't cast in pre-emptively to your allies, and many cases just see it flash there for an instant before it's broken because the enemy walked away during its casting animation. And her R cooldown is hard to keep track of in the midst of split-second team fighting, before you always knew you had two.

I like Karma OK, but as I said, she has nothing left of what she was in the first place.

And to answer why all the diehard Karmas didn't play her. For my part it was how everyone heard from the big boys how bad she was, and always gave me flak for choosing her.

And I almost forgot to add that I liked her strut, dress and fans.