Pyke, Thresh and Janna Buffs But No Karma Buff?!

Sir Rouge·9/18/2018, 9:07:46 PM·13 votes·9,534 views

Riot said patch 8.19 would be focused on competitive. They're buffing Thresh, Pyke and Janna as a result, because they see little to no pro play (to add diversity). However, Karma is seeing 0 pro play and is also doing much worse in soloq than Pyke and Thresh (who are in a good spot), and even a bit worse than Janna. There's no reason to not give Karma a simple buff as well (yes, her rework is coming, but that'll still be a couple months and she's been held in a bad spot for a while).

SOLOQ Plat+ from lolalytics: Overall Winrate // Best on Champ Winrate // Pickrate #1 Thresh (50.9%) // Thresh (59.3%) // Thresh (20.6%) #2 Janna (50.4%) // Pyke (57.2%) // Pyke (12.9%) #3 Pyke (49.9%) // Janna (56.2%) // Janna (6.9%) #4 Karma (48.1%) // Karma (53.7%) // Karma (4.1%)

Karma is at the bottom of all 3 categories compared to the 3 other buffed support. Out of all 3%+ pickrate supports, Karma has the 2nd worst winrate (worst being Tahm lol) and the worst Best on Champ winrate.

For once, she has the room for a buff to be back to viable in soloq because she's not meta at all in pro play (there's no reason not to give her a buff, especially since she'll be even worse in 8.19 because 3 other supports are getting buffed). It's really frustrating seeing the balance team have such heavy bias against certain champions.

13 Comments

HP Crookshanks9/18/2018, 11:07:34 PM6 votes

I think Riot hates Karma. Karma has no identity because she has only 2 abilities (Q and E). Her R just empowers her next Q or E and her passive should be a part of her R so she can get a real passive. W is almost never useful unless she builds tank which is even weaker than AP or support Karma.

Noor Sakata9/19/2018, 1:13:04 AM3 votes

This is a personal opinion , but No matter how good or weak Karma is , I hate playing against her , might be mostly from his shields

Small Boobs Ahri9/18/2018, 9:15:35 PM2 votes

and no Ahri buff too ???!

Free Down vote here

Sugar Momma9/19/2018, 12:22:03 AM1 votes

I have no idea why Riot gave Karma "compensation nerfs" for her last "buff." It was definitely nice to get a bit extra AOE on her Q, but was that buff by itself really going to break her?

flibitydoo9/18/2018, 9:57:38 PM1 votes

It's clearly not a soloQ or winrate/playrate stat based buff

it's a "we want thresh and pyke at worlds let's make'em busted so enchanter/alistar/braum support won't make chat go ResidentSleeper".

0 Hogapu9/19/2018, 1:18:54 AM1 votes

There is more work on Karma that is likely to be pulled of soon. they don't want to bother trying to give her little adjusts while they are working on it.

Blåbæret9/19/2018, 1:30:22 AM1 votes

Literally none of the champions getting buffed need buffs. It's pathetic what this balance team is doing to the game.

Darkstar Annie9/19/2018, 3:47:46 AM1 votes

Why would they buff pyke? What more could he possibly need?

hook, aoe stun, regen, invisibility, team gold share, and true damage execution.