Jungle Karma needs some help

Yorukin·5/29/2015, 11:53:22 PM·1 votes·506 views

Now that Karma's W has received its buffs, the Karma jungle position that several people (myself included) have asked for is now an actual possibility. Unfortunately, having played her, I can safely say that she only does... okay in that role. Sure, she's got good sustain off of her E and RW, and quite a bit of ganking pressure through her utility and early ult, but her clear speeds are utterly abysmal. As a mage, she's too squishy to survive a straight-up fight against Red Brambleback for too long, and her biggest damage skill requires her to hold off on her main source of sustain outside of a Ranger's Trailblazer (which she WILL be buying if she wants to be useful).

Karma's in a good spot right now balance-wise, but she could desperately use some help in the jungle. After all, at the moment there's very little reason to pick Karma over, say, Fiddlesticks. He has superior sustain, stronger and faster CC, and more consistent damage, all while only trading off some utility.

My ideas for buffing jungle Karma are either:

  • Inner Flame and Soulflare (Q and RQ) do 20% bonus damage to monsters, or
  • Gathering Fire's cooldown reduction effect now-works on large and epic monsters, though only at half strength for spell hits.

Thoughts and ideas?

2 Comments

jDVL20eCYs5/30/2015, 12:09:53 AM1 votes

lol jungle karma need no help its broken trust me, she clear better then evelyn and kah

SirShaggy6/1/2015, 3:18:58 AM1 votes

I'd love to see this! Been trying out jungle Karma with the changes and it's pretty shaky, especially early, but I could see it being a viable and interesting pick with a few minor changes. Rito pls