Grounded Effect to Empowered Karma Q?

Shirvallah·7/18/2018, 3:00:07 PM·1 votes·1,305 views

So, as a lot of you may know, Karma’s been struggling for a while. I know Riot’s looking into her right now, and I’m thankful for that. I also know that there have been quite a few mobile champions released or reworked recently. So, I had an idea:

Maybe we could give a grounded effect to Karma’s empowered Q so that she’s forced to choose between that and shielding everyone during team fights. It’ll put some punch back into her kit that she’s been needing for a very long time until she receives her much needed rework, and it’ll even give her some skill expression that she’s in dire need of.

Just an idea I had. Love it? Hate it? Let’s talk short term solutions for Karma.

1 Comments

IxtaliKing7/18/2018, 6:00:47 PM3 votes

Grounding on RQ isn't the most feasible solution, especially since we have limited control over RQ's placement. She'd probably have to lose damage to accommodate an effect like that too, which would hurt her mage identity. Also, combined with her ability to root enemies and haste herself, it probably wouldn't be very healthy either.

If we're looking for solutions for RQ all it really needs is ground targeting, it's simple and solves a lot of problems:

Allows for better wave management in solo lanes.
Improves target selection for team fights.
Increases skill expression (spell becomes more flexible)
Opens up balance levers; Riot could easily tweak the missile speed, eruption radius or back-load damage (among other things) without gutting the spell for counterplay (if necessary).

And although it's a simple change, it can potentially set her up for the long term.