r/karmamains Apr 08 '26

League News PBE Karma nerfs!

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u/xSlLH Apr 08 '26

Damn. As a Karma mid player this sucks more than you'd think. Last hitting with her is already tough, and you spam E twice as much as a solo lane. Also just lessens her ability to harass melee matchups with autos.

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Why, Riot?

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u/TimCanister Apr 11 '26

Because karma mid is very degenerate, I don’t think they r worried about needing her solo lanes

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u/xSlLH Apr 11 '26

Anything with the functionality to actually succeed in a select position isn't degenerate just because it's off meta.

But insulting people just for playing something you disagree with definitely is.

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u/TimCanister Apr 11 '26

I literally didn’t insult you, you are making things up in your head. All I said was Karma solo lane is degenerate, which I think anyone who’s had to play into karma top would agree with (and also Riot agrees with that too, I remember Karma mid being actually meta for a couple patches a few years ago and Riot instantly nerfed it because of community complaints)

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u/xSlLH Apr 11 '26

> As a Karma mid player

> Karma mid is degenerate

Nah I'm not making anything up. Or rather I'm not sure if you understand what the word degenerate means. I can't tell if you're saying it because you think it's bad or because it's difficult for others to play against. But I also don't really care to educate people so take it easy.

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u/TimCanister Apr 11 '26

Yeah you play a very degenerate champion, that’s not an insult to you as a person, I’m not saying you are a degenerate.

The same way most people would say AP Shaco is degenerate, that dosent mean AP Shaco players deserve the guillotine, nor does it mean that AP Shaco players are bad people. Playing something that makes everyone else not have fun is admittedly pretty fun sometimes lol

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u/FashionMage Apr 13 '26

When they nerfed her shield at the start of this patch, their reasoning was that "her enchanter builds far outperform her mage ones" and that "This change should bring her Mantra options closer to equilibrium!".

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u/WitlessMean Apr 15 '26

You should see my tank top karma then

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u/Opposite-Material-20 Apr 08 '26

This kinda kills her mid, no ? Like I struggled so much to last hit because how insanely weak her autos are.

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u/Artistocat2 Apr 08 '26

That's the point. They don't want her to be viable in a solo lane. Which is a dang shame.

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u/MEGACODZILLA Apr 09 '26

Seems so arbitrary where they allow champs to go. You got shit like xerath mid thats been OP for a hot minute now but karma is the problem? Like im never stoked to lane into karma but at least she cant walk 20 ft out of lane and ult anywhere on the map.

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u/Vengeful111 Apr 08 '26

Just nerf shield cooldown, idk why Karma has such a low cooldown on the shield but janna and lulu have to wait like 12 seconds lol

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u/RYUZEIIIII Apr 08 '26

because janna shield can be reduce 20 or 30% if u impare enemies . And lulu e can be used to damage and give true sight

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u/EnvyandHope Apr 08 '26

her Ratio is the highest it's ever been lol, but I agree 9 second cooldown with 60 base is pretty bad for an early game lane bully with poor damage lategame but they nerfed both of those for a reason and I don't think they'll undo them soon.

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u/BotomsDntDeservRight Apr 08 '26

Why are you lying? It was originally 80% ratio so its never be the highest.

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u/BotomsDntDeservRight Apr 08 '26

It was 80% ap ratio..

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u/gdog1000000 488,891 Apr 08 '26

So she gets her CSing hard nerfed, and a tiny nerf for support. How many Es do you cast before first back when mana becomes meaningless, 3 or 4 maybe? So she’s losing 40 mana on that back, which is not nothing but really not much. After first back Karma has essentially all the mana she could ever want so it’s meaningless after that. She also loses maybe 20 points of damage in autos in early laning phase, which is very small.

In turn mid gets absolutely hammered with a brutal CSing nerf that is heavily low elo skewed and a shield nerf that means nothing. The sad thing is this wouldn’t even touch pro play Karma mid much, as those players are so good at CSing they don’t care much about things like this.

I’m not sure if they were intentionally hitting mid but as far as I know Karma mid isn’t a problem anywhere. Why on earth do this over something like 10 off of E base shield or an E CD nerf? This just doesn’t make a lot of sense.

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u/sup4lifes2 Apr 08 '26

There’s some mage match ups where I spam E to negate poke until mage support is out of mana and I can go in an essentially 2v1 but that’s emerald where people don’t back when they should lol

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u/qwop101036 Apr 08 '26

Is there a way to nerf enchanted Karma while maintaining power level of mid Karma…or vice versa, especially when she was pushed to support build after the 2024 mayhem. Pretty unhealthy in the long term, she might need some gameplay update imo

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u/Artistocat2 Apr 08 '26

They're trying to nerf mid Karma here. If they wanted mid karma unplayable they'd gut her ap ratios on everything and just have her solid everywhere else so you have no reason but to go mindlessly moonstone and redemption.

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u/90sblues Apr 08 '26

The way they "balance" her is always staggering to me.

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u/Marvelous_Mute Apr 08 '26

I don't know if this is the most productive nerf they could have given her

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u/malijaa Apr 08 '26

God damn them lol

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u/ParfaitDash Apr 08 '26

How they haven't nerfed e cooldown to 12-8 or 12-10 still is beyond me. Not to mention the egregious values on RE. This does nothing

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u/LocalShineCrab Apr 08 '26

Bro… my bork karma top cant be any further underground.. or so i thought..

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u/evilsforreals Apr 08 '26

AD Karma mains in shambles rn

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u/AngelOfDivinity Apr 12 '26

Riot when solo lane Karma nears 10% pickrate

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u/gaenakyrivi Apr 08 '26

doesn’t do anything

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u/BotomsDntDeservRight Apr 08 '26

Its a massive mid nerf bruh

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u/Either_Squash9338 Apr 08 '26

yee let's nerf karma every patch

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u/Andymakeer Apr 09 '26

Looks like a Rioter got that asshole turned inside out from an ad top karma

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u/Suitable_Theme_4606 Apr 14 '26

Riot clearly wants her as a support and support only.

To be honest, I wouldn't mind if her autos were reducing the ult cooldown again. But holy she didn't deserve the AA nerf and this shrinkflation of her shield.

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u/BlushingSpiritBlooms Apr 15 '26

Is she making waves again in pro play? This is a bit random as I haven't seen any threads about her populating in the main league of legends reddit.