User blog comment:Typhron/Karma's Problems./@comment-8524387-20130827023910/@comment-8524387-20130827160227

You're one of the few people who also likes the new VU :P On a serious note, one thing that the rework excelled with was buffing her range. OldKarma's damage was oddly positioned. Not only were your defensive abilities your offensive ones - which made her interesting but can end up gimping her damage and utility - but she was a short-range, bursty caster with low mobility. That's not high risk, high reward, that's unreasonable risk for its reward: Burst mages either have short-range and high-mobility (Zed, Kassadin, LeBlanc) to get in and out of situations - making them assassins - or long range and low mobility (Lux, Xerath, Nidalee) to destroy from afar. At least the rework pushed her into one the roles, and that could be how she could be ultimately improved. Along with buffing her passive (X seconds refreshed on kills and assists), slightly reducing the cooldown on her Q and E or increasing the slow and haste on both would make her into the poking long-range caster with disengage that she should be.

While jungle Karma wasn't expected, Riot admitted that they're fine with Karma finding success in the top lane, so that's probably gonna stay. Personally, many of the issues people have with new Karma seem to be mitagated there. Karma has a supportish kit with strong poke, and thus can kite circles around many bruiser champs. Keep pestering them with Qs whenever they try to CS, whenever they agress on you, E and W as you kite them back, just before the snare goes off, fire a Mantra'd Q so your target is snared before it goes off. There was one EU LCS game where the rest of Karma's team lost, but in the isolated top lane, Karma was handily beating Zac.


 * shurg* One thing that seems to be popping up is that NewKarma isn't as fun, but what are your thoughts? I think that conclusion comes from the fact that she only has one purely offensive ability, but I think if you're willing to play like a support, you can have a good time.