Yo, Riot, before Doing That Tank Update ...

SilverSquid·2/9/2017, 11:12:44 PM·7 votes·1,015 views

... and introducing potentially eventually game breaking new tank items, could we adress Tank Karma first? I know she isn't overly problematic, but sure as hell unthematic and more than obnoxious to a fair share of players. And the more champions we can prevent from getting potentially broken the better! (We all remember tank Fizz, Ekko, Fiora.... right?) Additionally, I think this could be done quite easily, all while improving Karma!

Instead of doing this:

[RW] RENEWAL: Focused Resolve heals Karma for 20% (+ 1% per 100 AP) missing health upon being cast and once more upon rooting its target.

do something like this

[RW] RENEWAL: Focused Resolve heals Karma for 40/80/120/160 (+1 per 20AP) increased by 3% for every 1% health she is missing upon being cast and once more upon rooting its target.

This would

  • remove her unnecessary hp-scaling
  • retain her healing capabilities
  • would still work mostly as an emergency/bait heal, due to being only a quarter effective on high hp.
  • potentially make RW more insteresting for midlane&support Karma, thus balancing out the mantra options a bit more

Additionally I am convinced she would still work toplane, but, like, as a mage similar to Vladimir Lissandra Ryze instead of a turqoise mini DrMundo



PS: My proposed values might be off, but a real game designer could easily adapt them. Try to focus on the general idea. PPS: I made a thread with more quick fixes to her, that should make Karma more interesting, fulfilling and deep, both as mage and support, without requiring a VGU or sth. You should CHECK IT OUT if you like my approach!

14 Comments

Ralanr2/9/2017, 11:14:43 PM4 votes

The intended goal of the tank update is for tanks to get the most benefit out of defensive items while other classes do not.

MisterShameless2/10/2017, 6:16:04 AM1 votes

What would you think if Karma's old Q became Karma's new W? That would give her a heal, the wave clear from her old R+E, and bring back damage she has lost from the patch 5.10. Also what if she had her old passive and her current passive was moved to R with it scaling by 1, 1.5, 2. Basically something like a half-revert.

Linna Excel2/10/2017, 7:04:38 PM1 votes

I've got the feeling that tank items are getting majorly nerfed and that tanks are getting a bunch more armor, mr, and HP per level. So every time you level up, you'll end up getting 10 armor, 10 mr, and 100 HP which will vary a little from tank to tank. That way tanks will get a lack of fun build into their kits and other classes won't be able to be tanks when a GA only gives them 20 armor and 20 mr and a thornmail will have a whopping 30 armor.

Reaper Soraka2/11/2017, 1:24:54 AM1 votes

Where's my picture of the dominos.

It's the only reason I clicked. I thought it was cute.