User blog comment:Typhron/Karma's Problems./@comment-4636093-20130825193529/@comment-4636093-20130825205947

Ahhhhhhhhh......

... It appears I'm retarded. That would explain most of my life and why my face smells of egg..

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I agree and disagree with many of those points. Overall agree, however there are some points which I haven't found to be true.

Firstly: A minor error, you would get your maximum bonus AP from Old Karma's Passive when she was at or below 30% health, not when you were at 1%.

Old Karma, and New Karma have problems. But they are not the same ones.

Old Karma had burst, but lacked the range or mobility to make use of it. Old Karma had very strong survival power, but again lacked the range to make use of it and couldn't do very much else.

New Karma is ultra mobile (compared to anyone else without a blink).. but is countered by people with more of it (see characters with Blinks). New Karma nukes like an Annie, but doesn't have any sustained damage to follow through or secure the kill. New Karma has powerful supporting power, but is outclassed by Janna and Lux.

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Another thing I don't think is true is the rework fixing nothing. In fact a few of her skills being joggled around with effect and utility did a world of good I find. The Speed boost on her shield both blocks damage when an ally gets out of position, and get them back into position. The heal on her tether allows her to out tank any engagement or counterengagement and run away or kill the enemy when they're snared. And the nuke on her nuke.. is... you know.. makes a bigger nuke.

Her new passive is not useless, you can have your ult up twice a teamfight with some CDR, for doing her Annie like burst combo twice, or pick someone off in a teamfight with RQ at the start then chase them down with RE at the end.

Her Q is far easier to land than I'm hearing. Even if you hit minions it's blast radius is huge and only gets larger when you empower it.

W is wierd granted.

E... yes, it does give you the choice between it and her other abilities... why is this a bad thing? The Nuke doesn't do much less damage than her Q so it's really a choice of whether you want to survive longer with E or pick someone off with Q.

And the think about Karma's new Mantra is that it IS an ult. With the same power as a Lux ult, or LeBlanc ult, or Blitz ult, or another ult with a shortish cooldown. RQ has the same power as an Annie's R and Q. RW has the same power as Swain's R-W. RE... there isn't really anything to compare it to other than a free Shurelia's + Locket on a 15 second cooldown. And you get a lesser version of all these at level 1, then come 6 you get the full version.

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All in all I can't see Karma becoming as popular as many other Mages. However it's not really a problem with her power level, more so no-one wants to deal with her Poke-Dissengage nature of her Q and E spells... then have to completely switch to hard engage to make use of W.