Hello. I'm just an another traditional Karma player.
I used to play traditional(old) Karma alot and enjoyed doing that. She was underplayer, but wasn't underpowered. Karma was a really strong champion, with alot of great combos. But still, riot did remake Karma.
Old Karma was really strong thanks to these facts:
- Karma could AOE heal, while AOE bursting whole enemy team, while being really tanky, while dissing out tons of damage.
- She was a great splitpusher thanks to her Q and E (mantra)
- She had a great passive, providing her alot of AP, while her new passive is only a buff to the ultimate.
- She could have 2 mantras with a much shorter cooldown, which made her extremely interesting to play.
- She had the strongest shield in game, which could protect from 4-5turret hits at max rank.
Now let's compare it to the new one.
- She can't heal her teammates.
- She can't splitpush that fast.
- She can't really be the tanky mage she used to be.
- She relies on her ultimate too much, especialy with a cooldown that long.
- She practicly has no passive.
- Her Q is very easy to dodge.
- Her passive is bugged, and doesn't count if you hit multiple opponents at the same time.
- Her W's heal doesn't pay off her initial squishyness.
- She now depends way too much on cooldowns, putting her on a dangerous risk after using one of her abilitys.
Keep in mind that we, Karma players didn't actually want a rework. We only wanted a buff. If a rework would be completely different, then maybe. Just maybe. And it's not just me, new Karma actually has LESSER win and pick rates than the old one.
She is weaker now, but she is also full of bugs. Her passive is not working properly, and also, her Q is bugged.
Here's a reddit thread explaining Karma's Q
What would fix the new Karma?
It would be hard, but I'm guessing that the new Karma can only be fixed like this:
Giving her Q 3times faster projectile speed.
Inscreasing W's damage 5times.
Doubling E's Shield and damage.
Giving her Ultimate 10seconds cooldown.
Maybe then, she can be viable again.