I havent played in like a week so that is one reason. ;p jk Um reasons azir is fairly good against her in higher elo at least. Swain was op for a while and i dont think karma has the sustain damage to get through his absurd healing atm, Tanks are still strong and karma has a more difficult time to get through them. those are the few reasons that come from the top of my head.

because shes bad. unreliable cc. her shielding and utility is meh. and her damage is reliant on a single ability. she does nothing compared to a regular mage

Buff Dumpster Karma strikes again!

Just kidding, she is already back up at 46,4% or a pretty average 50,49, depending on where you look.

I still think with her low playmaking abilities and high counterplay her buffs seem to go nowhere, and now that her popularity spike is over and people learned how to play against her, she seems toothless yet again. "Sleeper OP Karma" went back to sleep before fully waking up.

http://champion.gg/champion/Karma/Middle

maybe you're missing reality :P statistics for 6.11 are not out yet, right?

The term you're looking for is "meta shift". I don't think this meta favors Karma at all.

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kappa

All her spells were changed, so she is better support and trash tier mid.

I don't get why anyone would take her mid. I use her support frequently, but that's because shield champs are brainlessly easy to get assists on. I don't like her kit though. I look at it like this:

Q - poke W - highly situational E - shield which is the bread and butter R - shield magnifier

I'm can feel the "you're doing it wrong" posts coming, but whatever. This is my 2 cents.

She is a support

Meanwhile,

don't judge small sample sizes

Ehhh she's still one annoying as heck lane powerhouse, but the other day I played a Karma mid game to late and got reminded of her fallacies.

We did win the game through snowballing pressure; inhibs, eventually triple inhibs, a couple barons, and an elder dragon 3 or 4? We still had to backdoor though. At a certain point we weren't able to win a teamfight at all. As Karma mid I kinda diverted all my farm to my ADC, our Olaf and Fiora who were playing great. The enemy team was running a really strong frontline (Darius) a backline that was really far away (Caitlyn), and I was vs. Lissandra mid who was an absolute bomb /assassin in fights. Vs. that kind of formation it's impossible to land mantra Q's on meaningful targets.

Anyways it was very hard for me as Karma to land meaningful damage or peel meaningfully in those very intense cutting edge late game teamfights.

Karma has a strange way of claiming sleeper because of her early prowess. But then always strangely drops out of the meta so suddenly. Perhaps after a dramatic failure. I remember the time Bjergson got a penta on Karma mid in the LCS years ago but lost the game.

It's fair to say that the sustain tanks like Swain are kicking her out though. She would be pretty not great against that. Karma would excel against a team of full squishies. But so could many things. And those teamcomps are just plain bad in season 6. And probably will always be now, until tank items are nerfed across the board, or we get something back as busted as old LW.