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