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The opinion of ONE Karma main

Thats Karma·4/3/2018, 2:12:14 AM·5 votes·1,102 views

I do not enjoy her new lore. I do not dislike her character being based off the Dalai Llama, but from the pacifist route she has chosen. Asides absolutely none of her quotes making sense now (if other champions quotes are lore canon, so are hers), the pacing of her story feels rushed and makes little sense. Darha hears voices, slowly losing her sanity over it, some monks make her the leader of their order, she has her own identity overpowered by past incarnations of herself, invaders come, she decides to kill a bad guy, the voices stop and now she's hiding in a cave waiting for the voices to come back in their entirety. What? How is this character interesting? WHO is this character? Is she Darha or is she Karma? If Karma is basically 1000+ previous lives then how does the voice of one child compel 1000+ elders with ancient wisdom to break their mantra? I really wish there was more pressure for Riot to put some effort into this champion. Every change that happens to her is usually met with a majority of criticism. Riot does extremely well on their lore as of late so why does it feel that Karma, the champion they typically mess up and should be striving to do better than before, once again gets a rush job?

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Lintu Puck4/3/2018, 4:20:38 AM3 votes

The body is Darha. The character we play is Karma. Karma's enlightenment is part of what has kept her spirit going all this time. Darha is described as "headstrong and independent". Noxus invades and messes shit up. The people cry for help and Darha's voice speaks up and basically asks "What good is all this power if we do not use it?" Pushed into a corner Karma agrees that she will allow ONE kill and manages to get on a ship, aiming for it's Commander to be that One Kill. To much power gets unleashed and the entire ship goes boom, killing ALL the people on that ship besides Karma. This goes against Karma's enlightenment (that evil always gets it's due and thus one need not take action) and thus her spiritual connection and thus the past voices fall silent (leaving just Darha and Base Karma) and Karma retreats to atone for her mistake.

The only thing the bio did not make clear is WHEN did Karma take full control of Darha's body.

jocomotion4/4/2018, 5:40:56 AM1 votes

I hope they don’t rush her lore like they did her rework and continue to work on it.

LBmyBB4/5/2018, 8:24:24 PM1 votes

I'm a secondary Karma main (LeBlanc being first) and I play her in the support role. The new lore SUCKS. It's so contradictory and it's so unoriginal. She was just fine. All of a sudden she hates fighting even though shes in LEAGUE OF LEGENDS.