Why I started maining Karma

Freewalker··1 votes·620 views

Hello, I'm a support main, and I've been liking Karma a lot lately for one specific reason: her E, and I've been maxing it first. Since mobility creep caused immobile mages like Heimerdinger to move to the bot lane (at least in low elo), I've noticed that success in the bot lane all comes down to mobility. Karma has that golden ability which lets her shield and give movement speed at will, and for her whole party if she ults it. This one ability alone, in about the dozen games I've been maining Karma so far, has already saved my botlaner from ganks, bursts, and escaping danger, while also helping chase down champs who have much better mobility. I have the movement speed buff to thank for this, because my timing for the shield still needs improvement (I have to keep my mouse on my ally so I can press E whenever the enemy uses an ability).

I love building item 2065 because it's icing on the cake, and works great if Karma's ult is on cooldown.

I have some feedback for Riot about this, and I believe that this mobility mechanic is so crucial that any support champ should have accessibility to it. Shurelya's has a 90 second cooldown, which I find is a really long time since the botlaner can be bursted every few seconds. I think maybe reworking Karma's E a bit, and then making a keystone rune, item passive, or reworking Shurelya's to be able to proc the movement speed boost whenever you target an ally with an ability (including yourself), could help improve the situation for immobile champs. You could even combo with summoner 21 for a movement speed boost.

Just my thoughts. Anyone else think similarly?

4 Comments

remakoro4 votes

I hate removal of shield-bomb and her shitty CC but she is REALLY strong in some team comps. When there is Darius or some other big and scary and therefore immobile thing running around with her shield its really scary.

destroyer227193 votes

Karma is one of the lowest picked supports in the game. Especially in competitive. Karma support just couldn't keep up with the paste of other supports like Janna Lulu Pyke. There was 1 hope. A big one. That is Karma mid. You see the thing with Karma support is that her W, gives your enemies a 2 second window of you being near them. Other champions can easily punish for that. And because bot lane is a 2 laner, you can be punished hard. In mid lane Karma is really good because of item 3285 it is the cream of the crop for karma and a desperately needed item for her as it buffs 2 things karma is good and weak at. Burst and Wave clearing. Mantra Q couldn't fully clear a wave in the early game. But with Echo it can. You also don't have 2 targets targeting you and just one which makes thing so much easier as in the early game mages don't do too much damage so she can just use e. But karma mid is also being outpaced by newer mid laners like Taliyah and Zoe

Tahminatrix 2 votes

Yes, this is the one reason why I think karma isn't so weak.

jocomotion2 votes

I mean, I love Karma’s speed boost too, but Zilean is more effective as a MS steroid.

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