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Upcming Karma changes soon to hit PBE

Windfallen·5/14/2015, 12:29:10 AM·1 votes·1,014 views

Gathering Fire (Passive) CD Refund on spell hit increased to 2/2.5/3/3.5 at levels 1/6/11/16 from 2 at all levels CD Refund on Basic Attack still at 50% of spell hit value Focused Resolve (W) Can now target monsters in addition to champions Renewal (Mantra + W) Reworked - both healing and bonus damage removed. Now debuffs target for duration of tether + root. All damage dealt to target is increased by 10% (excludes true damage) All damage dealt to target heals Karma for 20% of the damage dealt If the damage source is a champion on Karma's team (excluding Karma) they are also healed for 20% of damage dealt Inspire (E) Cooldown reduced to 10/9/8/7/6 from 10 seconds at all ranks Mana Cost lowered to 60/65/70/75/80 from 60/70/80/90/100 Shield ammount lowered to 80/110/140/170/200 from 80/120/160/200/240 Defiance (Mantra + E) No longer deals damage Now increases target's shield by 30/90/150/210 (+.3 AP) Aoe Shield amount is now 50% of primary target's shield amount from 30/70/110/150

These look AWESOME. Buffs EVERYWHERE. The whole freaking kit outside of her Q, BUFFED!!!! Which is fine because her Q is the best part of the kit right now. She's basically gained a new support ability, being able to provide bonus damage and a heal to her teammates for the damage they deal.

If it improves her early/mid game by too much... I definitely think it will be toned down for the better. However, this could be huge for her in the lategame... where she defaults to a support (Even if she was midlane karma) outside initial burst from an empowered Q. Which devastates squishies at any stage of the game.... Though it's hardly effective against bruisers/tanks.Now she can provide more support for her teammates to deal with them!

These changes look freaking nuts.

I will gladly exchange empowered W damage and and empowered E damage... because if i'm trying to deal damage, I empower Q anyway. I don't mind losing some shield either.

Karma lost some cushioning with her shield.... but it's still a huge buff since she can cast it more often.

18 Comments

Yash Gautam5/14/2015, 12:37:21 AM1 votes

Login queues suddenly stop and Ekko isn't on PBE for me ;(

Rico Nasty5/14/2015, 1:07:36 AM1 votes

Seriously? Why does everyone like the fact that a perfectly fine, balanced champion, got changes? I'm a Karma main and I'm furious.. people will whine about how op she is now, and she'll get nerfed.. hard.

jmonster1295/14/2015, 2:09:52 PM1 votes

i really don't like it when people say karma is balanced, she isn't unbalanced doesn't mean broken, or overpowered or weak,

she's unbalanced cuz of how strong her RQ is in comparison to her other mantras, unbalanced because her kit contains elements and play styles that are counterintuitive: kite mage play style (q poke, e shield and movement speed) but has RW that relies on getting close and scales with health?

RE is pretty weak in shield strength and damage, its only really used to wave clear, but even then you can get around it by just aiming your RQ's better

also her RW and RQ are so strong early on in laning, but later on she falls off cuz they become less impactful when your mantra CD only allows you one use in a team fight unless you somehow manage to have a fight long enough to get off 2 mantras, which doesn't happen enough,

new changes make her other mantras stronger for late game, and allow her to use them more often

Karbuncle5/14/2015, 9:32:22 PM1 votes

Reporting is all you CAN do,you're bad with Karma and can't be expected to even know game balance.

Karbuncle5/15/2015, 1:55:01 AM1 votes

I like the changes as well,but this guy who "mains" her,has been complaining on multiple threads when I don't think he can even gauge that she needs changes. There's some kind of problem with the tether,it says the cast range is 675 and the break range is 1000,however melee characters are naturally faster than her,and ranged characters either do a lot more damage than her and/or have some kind of dash.So to keep up they expect you to use your slow and shield. Problem is her Q stops her own movement and so does her W so instead of the small speed boost E giving your edge it actually just makes up for her own kits mistakes.