Went mid karma against Ekko. Only died twice but I focused mainly on farm.
I'm thinking of going double morellos or Morello+Red chalice so my q comes out every 3 seconds :V
Rylai'd be good on her since it'd put both her q and w at giving 40% slow correct?
Haha, don't go double morellos or morellos+athene's.
Here are a number of builds I go for:
Standard:
D.Ring+Pots > Morello > Pen Boots > Luden's > Void Staff > Zhonya's > DCap.
Against AD:
D.Ring+Pots > Morello * > Pen Boots > Zhonya's > Void Staff > DCap > Luden's
*Throw in a Seeker's Armguard as you finish up Morello if you can, it goes a long way in lane against AD poke and AD trades.
Against balls deep or poke-city AP who know what they're doing:
D.Ring+Pots > Morello * > Pen Boots > Abyssal Scepter > Void Staff > Zhonya's/Luden's > DCap.
*Get a mantle, bump it up to negatron cloak if needed as you're building your Morello. Finish it into an Abyssal after or before pen boots.
Just because you can:
D.Ring+Pots > Morello > Pen Boots > SpookyGhosts > Luden's > Void Staff > DCap
You get 30% CDR with just the items, and you can crank it up to 40% with runes and masteries.
Top lane split push wonder:
D.Ring+Pots > Nashor's Tooth > Pen Boots > into whatever you like since you're an mlg pro karma at this point.
But ye. Rylai's on Karma is decent mostly since it bumps up your w to an even better kiting tool, it still has 100 AP, and it gives you 400 extra health - but it's taking up an item slot of something like either Luden's or Zhonya's, and those are both really useful items that end up going a longer way than being able to slow with your W every couple of seconds.
On the Karma vs Ekko lane, she poops on him utterly. In farming, you get to poke him with autos for days so you a) harass him and b) reset your ult's cooldown. My combo for trades is this:
When enemy laner is walking up to farm, I activate E for the speedboost to get close to them enough for the link to stay alive after they dash/flash away. As they're about to get stunned by your W, you throw your R'd Q at them so it hits them a nanosecond before they get stunned and they get hit by the second detonation after they're free of the stun.
I'll force myself and cut the post short, but yeah, Karma is a more than decent mid laner, and I feel like she's perfect for the type of players you would match up against in lower elo.