+ strong laning phase
+ great in all stages of the game
+ good at roaming and easy waveclear
+ good at kiting and poking
+ good at chasing/catching
+ good at quickly blowing up squishies and best in long lasting fights
+ great at teamfights or 1v1's

- not taking care of your CDS and mana make u vulnerable to ganks
- wrong mantra decisions can sometimes get u in a rly bad situation

• Greater Quintessence of Ability Power: helps dmg alot early
  
• greater mark of hybrid penetration: great for early poke, especially when AA abuse early
  
• Greater Glyph of Magic Resist: standard vs early ap dmg laners
  
• Greater Seal of Armor: standard, helps when getting hit by minions, auto attacks,...
• RUNEPAGE NOTE: if you only have one runepage for your karma, i would recommend use this as ur standard one.

• Greater Quintessence of Ability Power: helps dmg alot early
  
• greater mark of hybrid penetration: great for early poke, especially when AA abuse early
  
• Greater Glyph of Cooldown Reduction: little early cdr boost
• Greater Glyph of Scaling Cooldown Reduction: let u reach 40%cdr without blue late (scaling out flat ones past 9)
  
• Greater Seal of Scaling Health: nice hp scaling for later game (scales out flat ones past 6)
• RUNEPAGE NOTE: if youre facing zed, talon, riven,... i highly recommend taking armor over scaling health seals.

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FEROCITY Tier 1 // Fury: makes your autoattacking smoother, good for AA abuse early, and helps with csing Tier 2 // Feast: sustain Tier 3 // Natural Talent: i prefer this over vampirism since i feel that u dont rly need the vamp Tier 4 // Oppressor: good for early +%dmg (QW proc this) and doesnt need to scale up first like bounty hunter

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CUNNING Tier 1 // Savagery: helps with CS Tier 2 // Secret Stash: cookie boost can be helpful sometimes + extend your sorcery elixir (if u wanna get 1 at some stages of the game) Tier 3 // Merciless: i always take this since its a good dmg boost and i feel confident with manareg of 2 dorans (+- Athenes) but u could also go for points in mediation if u really think u need more manareg Tier 4 // Dangerous Game: this can be very helpful at all stages of the game Tier 5 // Precision: even more HPEN, i like Tier 6 // Thunderlord's Decree: Try proc it on CD in laning phase

best item to spam your spells throughout the game

i rly like them over sorceress boots on karma

dmg, good for poking, and even the MS is rly nice

get this as your 3rd/4th item, except your targets got no MR

gives you time for reload your spells, helps with ults like zed ult,... vs full ad comps or zeds u can get this as 1th/2nd item. can also be used mid mantra W for not dying mid chain.

ap ap ap

Skilling Order

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This is the "standard" way to go for me.

Still, i recommend to not follow this by 100% of the time.
Sometimes u wanna start E, depends on how safe u feel vs ur lane opponent.

if u get chunked early u can also W second for mantra some life back and be more on the safe side.

at level 4 u could take a second point into E if u feel unsafe, or just go straight for the Q max.

how to take use of ur mantra: best way to use ur mantra in lane is if u W chain ur enemy, u wanna follow up with a mantra'ed Q so he cant really get out of the 2nd proc.
if u getting low hp, mantra W ur opponent.
also remember that when teamfighting or getting low hp near jungle camps, u can back off to heal up with a mantra W on a big jungle monster, and get back to fight!

your E: very nice tool to just upfront chase for autos (the shield will sorb dmg from minion aggro as well), keep enemy in W distance, dodge skillshots, bring out that last metre for hit ur Q, save lifes, buff chasers like voli,........

use your passive: remember that autoattacks and spell hits on champions reduce ur mantra CD.

any kind of requests/comments are appreciated

beginning @6.5
6.6 (March 23th 2016):
E - Defiance (Mantra)
SHIELD AMOUNT 30/90/150/210 ⇒ 30/100/170/240
RATIO 0.3 ability power ⇒ 0.6 ability power

March 13th 2016: -guide creation
March 20th 2016: -added pros/cons
March 20th 2016: -changed standard runepage to "allrounder" runepage
March 20th 2016: -added "confident matchup" runepage
March 23th 2016: -added patch changes / "mantra E" 6.6