Views: 1303 Some thoughts about Karma remake
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When I started playing LoL 
Karma was just released the same day. I bought her and Sona and she was the second champion I played and I instantly loved her, because she was elegant, she shielded and healed. (And when I was a noob I played all supports AP :D)
Later on I found Soraka and the other supports, but Karma still stayed special for me. At lvl 30 I didn't play her much, because her range was shorter than the others and very few people knew how to play with her. On top of that it was hard deciding what to build her, because as a full support with 0 AP she wasn't as good as with some AP, but as AP carry she wasn't as good as the others.
I admit that Karma needed change, but they didn't need to completely ruin her. I HATE the new Karma. It would have been enough to give her slightly longer range, take away the % heal scaling and make it stable like with Nami (or give it that knockback my friend was talking about). Maybe buff her Spirit Bond to slow and maybe stun enemies if it stayed unbroken or if someone run through it.
They didn't need to make her into a completely new character.
New Karma has nothing left of her dignity or elegance. First of all, I loved her heal, because she was the only champion in LoL who actually had non-ulti aoe heal (ecxluding Alistar, because nobody plays him as a healer) and had a heal and a shield at the same time. Sure I get Riot wants us to play more offensive, but not everybody wants to be a carry. I for one have always played cleric/priest/healer in MMORPGS (maybe that's why I got bored of GW2 so fast) and playing healer support in LoL is my favourite thing to do. With all the heal nerfs and now Karma I feel like that is being taken away from me.
SEcondly, I loved Karma's old outfit. My ingame friend said she looked old (I assume that means around 40, for a teenage boy), but she was MEANT to look a little older, dignified, elegant lady in a pretty dress.
What does the new Karma look like?
MORTAL KOMBAT IN STEROIDS.
I get it that most people who play LoL are teenage boys with their hormones, but seriously, do every female champion need to flash out some cleavage and/or legs? (Everyone with a fashion sense knows not so show off both at the same time :D) Go watch porn if you want to see more naked ladies, LoL is meant to be age approriate game. By age approriate I mean it should have older champs as well and not just 18-25 looking girls in their underwear. Might as well give Janna a bikini skin?
Back to Karma and her skills again. She's like LeBlanc+ Lux now focused on slowing enemies. Old Karma sure had little to no CC and that was her biggest problem, but taking away her healing ability and making all her skills slow enemies was a bit too much. I'd get if they tweaked her skillset, but now she's a completely new character with new looks and all.
Some fortune telling at the end: old Karma players like me will try, but don't like her after her release. She is then buffed to get more people to play her and then everyone plays her. Soon she's permaban in Ranked and everyone complains she's OP. After that she is nerfed to the graveyard and nobody even remembers she had a rework.
Karma was just released the same day. I bought her and Sona and she was the second champion I played and I instantly loved her, because she was elegant, she shielded and healed. (And when I was a noob I played all supports AP :D)Later on I found
Soraka and the other supports, but Karma still stayed special for me. At lvl 30 I didn't play her much, because her range was shorter than the others and very few people knew how to play with her. On top of that it was hard deciding what to build her, because as a full support with 0 AP she wasn't as good as with some AP, but as AP carry she wasn't as good as the others.I admit that
Karma needed change, but they didn't need to completely ruin her. I HATE the new Karma. It would have been enough to give her slightly longer range, take away the % heal scaling and make it stable like with Nami (or give it that knockback my friend was talking about). Maybe buff her Spirit Bond to slow and maybe stun enemies if it stayed unbroken or if someone run through it.They didn't need to make her into a completely new character.
New
Karma has nothing left of her dignity or elegance. First of all, I loved her heal, because she was the only champion in LoL who actually had non-ulti aoe heal (ecxluding Alistar, because nobody plays him as a healer) and had a heal and a shield at the same time. Sure I get Riot wants us to play more offensive, but not everybody wants to be a carry. I for one have always played cleric/priest/healer in MMORPGS (maybe that's why I got bored of GW2 so fast) and playing healer support in LoL is my favourite thing to do. With all the heal nerfs and now Karma I feel like that is being taken away from me.SEcondly, I loved
Karma's old outfit. My ingame friend said she looked old (I assume that means around 40, for a teenage boy), but she was MEANT to look a little older, dignified, elegant lady in a pretty dress.What does the new
Karma look like?MORTAL KOMBAT IN STEROIDS.
I get it that most people who play LoL are teenage boys with their hormones, but seriously, do every female champion need to flash out some cleavage and/or legs? (Everyone with a fashion sense knows not so show off both at the same time :D) Go watch porn if you want to see more naked ladies, LoL is meant to be age approriate game. By age approriate I mean it should have older champs as well and not just 18-25 looking girls in their underwear. Might as well give Janna a bikini skin?
Back to Karma and her skills again. She's like
LeBlanc+ Lux now focused on slowing enemies. Old Karma sure had little to no CC and that was her biggest problem, but taking away her healing ability and making all her skills slow enemies was a bit too much. I'd get if they tweaked her skillset, but now she's a completely new character with new looks and all.Some fortune telling at the end: old
Karma players like me will try, but don't like her after her release. She is then buffed to get more people to play her and then everyone plays her. Soon she's permaban in Ranked and everyone complains she's OP. After that she is nerfed to the graveyard and nobody even remembers she had a rework.
Everyone who had
Me, personally, I prefer
The traditional skin doesn't look the same as the old one, though. She has pants and a jacket.
Don't you wonder what her
Me, personally, I prefer
Opinion seconded. I'd love a
As per the Karma rework...yeah, she's more like a strong support or a supporty-AP mid, like Lux. I only got her to keep her classic skin, which I do prefer over her reworked skin.
Still thinking her W was utter bull**** and needed to be reworked.
I'm a
Let's evaluate, shall we?
Her passive used to be pretty much useless as an support, now it's useful on both AP
Her Q used to just deal damage, compared to her new one, a slow is pretty cool.
Her
Her new
Her W used to speed/slow a minimal amount, and the damage was laughable.
Her new W damages AND CC's (root), so again it's utilizable by both.
Her empowered W used to make the speed/slow okay, but was pretty awful anyways.
Her new empowered W now heals her and deals bonus damage which sure doesn't help as much as support but is a great deal for Mid
Her E is still pretty uch the same essentially, and no one would complain about a speed boost.
So all in all the only thing that chang'd (yes, chang'd) with her E is the speedboost.
Thanks for reading, in conclusion, we can say the new
I agree that she needed buffs, but I liked her heals. <.<
More than that my problem is with her new look. She looks like a character that escaped from Mortal Kombat and that is not a good thing. She was much better when she was elegant and graceful, not a prostite dressed up as a female monk. I doubt she was meant to be a monk either.
I'm a
Let's evaluate, shall we?
Her passive used to be pretty much useless as an support, now it's useful on both AP
Her Q used to just deal damage, compared to her new one, a slow is pretty cool.
Her
Her new
Her W used to speed/slow a minimal amount, and the damage was laughable.
Her new W damages AND CC's (root), so again it's utilizable by both.
Her empowered W used to make the speed/slow okay, but was pretty awful anyways.
Her new empowered W now heals her and deals bonus damage which sure doesn't help as much as support but is a great deal for Mid
Her E is still pretty uch the same essentially, and no one would complain about a speed boost.
So all in all the only thing that chang'd (yes, chang'd) with her E is the speedboost.
Thanks for reading, in conclusion, we can say the new