Summon Aery procs when you use Inspire giving you extra utility and shielding, and it's a fantastic way to proc Ardent Censer. It procs with Inner Flame as well, giving you a little bit extra poke in laning phase. Arcane Comet is another great choice if you're against a lane you can poke down easily.

Manaflow Band is the only viable rune in this column as support, it helps with your mana regen - which can quickly ramp up when you're consistently casting spells to poke and peel in lane.

Transcendence is our go to pick, providing us with +5 ability haste on levels 5 and 8, and then at level 11, all champion takedowns reduce the remaining cooldown on basic abilities.

Once again, focusing on an early lead in laning phase, Scorch is your go to rune. It helps give your ADC a wide berth around minions by poking down the opposition. It's one of the best options in this row. Gathering Storm is a good option as well, but it focuses more on post 20 minutes - if you have carries such as Ryze, Vayne and Kassadin, who scale high into late game, you might want to consider taking this over Scorch.

Biscuit Delivery is a great rune for sustain. It restores 10% of your missing health and mana, and increases your maximum mana by 50 anytime you consume or sell a biscuit. This is a great rune if you are facing a poke heavy opposition, and it also synergizes well with Manaflow Band.

Cosmic Insight grants summoner spell and item haste, reducing their cooldowns. A good choice on any support to bring Redemption, Mikael's Blessing and Flash/ Ignite/ Exhaust up quicker.

Karma is a very lane orientated support, you want to be poking down the enemies as much as you can with Inner Flame and Soulflare. You want to be exerting the threat of an all-in with Renewal, while being able to shield yourself or your ADC with Inspire.

You can help push the wave with Inner Flame, or poke the enemy behind the minions like this too. Focused Resolve should be used as a disengage, or to root the opposing laner you're chasing down.

If you're not looking to make an engage, you can use Inspire to shield yourself or ally from any incoming damage, you also proc Summon Aery this way, which adds extra sustain.






Outside of laning phase, you're going to want to be setting up a lot of Stealth Ward wards around objectives, such as Baron Nashor and the drakes. If your team is ahead, and it is safe to do so, you can set up deep vision in the enemies jungle, allowing yourself and your team to get important picks, that allow you to take the previously mentioned objectives.

You want to mostly take your focus from aggressive to utility focus during this stage of the game, if behind or even at least. You will want to focus peeling your ADC or main damage threat with Focused Resolve, and shielding your team with a Mantra empowered Inspire, granting everyone Ardent Censers buff (if you have purchased this item).

You can use Soulflare to nuke down the enemies health, only if your team is already ahead and have no risk of being picked off, or having the fight turned around on you.

Late game, you're just focusing on keeping your team alive, and buffed with Defiance, keeping it on a low cooldown with Gathering Fire.

The main thing to be aware of, is making sure your teams threats stay alive, while removing, or zoning, the enemy teams threats.

Control Ward's are a staple part of any support, both to deny your enemies vision, and to provide your team extra vision. You should make sure to buy one at least every time you back, preferably to have 2 on you at all times.

I hope you enjoyed, and learned enough from my Karma guide, to play her as well as the pro's.

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• 06/10/2019 - Published Guide.
• 06/12/2019 - Cleaned up layout, changed Inner Flame and Inspire on Abilities to reflect buffs.
• 06/27/2019 - Changed Inspire to reflect 9.13 nerfs.
• 08/02/2019 - Changed Defiance to reflect 9.15 nerfs.
• 09/25/2019 - Changed Inner Flame to reflect 9.19 nerfs.
• 11/20/2019 - Updated for 9.23.
• 12/12/2019 - Changed Inspire to reflect 9.24 buffs.
• 01/23/2020 - Changed Inner Flame and Focused Resolve to reflect 10.2 buffs.
• 11/20/2020 - Updated for preseason.
• 1/21/2021 - Updated for 11.2.