I think she does still work in solo lane. The scaling on her W went way up, so if you level that second while building AP it works relatively well. I'm not sure if it really does more damage with the higher scaling but you really do that to trick bruisers into thinking they can kill you and then heal for half ur life pool.
I honestly feel like her support role sorta took a hit because now she's even more dependant on AP.
I just think they should give her some buffs across the board. Just small ones like 10-15 points here and there. Maybe make W scaling 1.0 instead of .9.
And I thought about the mantra E argument about her passive...she'd get a maximum of 15 seconds shaved off if it hit every champ. And the way mantra works she still has to wait on the spells normal cooldown. PLUS those mantra spells aren't as strong as they should be, so whats so bad about her being able to use it? She can do the same thing with a well aimed Q if not moreso.. And she literally has to hit every enemy champ to get the 15 seconds, which basically means her normal target is probably getting destroyed..
She used to have 2 charges of mantra stored so...whats so bad about her getting more mantras in teamfights?
Is it COMPLETELY against everything for karma to be decent ever?
Shit I'd take nerfs to all her skills if she could have consistent mantras in teamfights..
Edit: I didn't really mean that...but she should have more mantras per-capita if all her spells are gonna stay sub-par..