Talk:Karma/@comment-24757408-20150617034353/@comment-3546228-20150622150246

Since she's my go-to support and I've had success with her in every elo from silver to diamond I can give you tips on how to do well with her.

First of all, dedicate 2-3 rune pages to her since she can use a variety of runes depending on opponents. If you have the pages and runes, of course. If not, just run armor and magic pen reds, armor yellows and magic resist per lvl blues, with AP, CDR or HP quints, depending on what you like having.

Against full AD teams go CDR per lvl blues. Against Corki/Leona in particular you should not go armor and go HP + MR instead. Karma is extremely vulnerable to high burst.

Second, understand that you can't always build AP and max Q and poke all game. Sometimes you'll lose lane horribly and need to make adjustments. Go for more conservatively support builds in those cases and go full AP only when you're doing super well.

If your team needs more hard engage, don't hesitate and buy. It's a support's job to buy items that his team needs.

It's always preferable for support Karma to max E second. After the changes W no longer deals insane damage unless you have a lot of AP. Keep it as a one point wonder. If you're losing lane get 3 points in Q then max E. Use R+E to disengage and R+W to engage, R+Q is good engage only on champions that don't have dashes.

For damage/AP the best items on her are hands down and. Both really compliment her poke playstyle and she always gets the bonus damage on Liandry because both of her damage spells are also CC.

In lane you should usually play fairly agressive and make sure you have prescence, so your AD carry doesn't get pressured too much. This is important because AD carries need safety to CS and they're usually under the most stress all game. Do all you can to make their job easier.

Against the lane bullies like Graves/Cait you must always play like an absolute potato and do all you can to help your AD push and get lvl 2 fast. Hit the caster minions with your Q and use the shield to avoid getting poked down early.

Against the more passive ADs like Vayne/Jinx you must do all you can to push them in and make them waste mana to CS. Vayne is especially important because your W will cancel her stealth after she gets 6 and she generally can't play agressive against Karma early game.