Talk:Karma/@comment-1876049-20161207104227/@comment-4922088-20161210091618

It's one of those annoying situations where there's an item effect that is stupidly strong on characters like her, but instead of nerfing the effect they're just going to systematically nerf every character that's strong with it.

The increasing shield strength effect is honestly a totally unnecessary and a really hard to balance passive effect. Right now it is strongest on her shield because of the short cooldown, which makes her normally balanced shield very strong without the need to build AP.

Next will be Janna, then probably Sona, and it will just keep going down the list like that until Riot finally nerfs the effect and gives basically none of the champions compensation for the lost stats.

High level players love to abuse the power of strong item effects, it'll make champions who are normally totally unviable must-picks to abuse it. It's happened with Cinderhulk, it's happened with Will of the Ancients, and it will probably happen with the combo of Mikael's/Redemption/Windspeakers.