Katarina changes on PBE aren't healthy
Reminder of what is getting tested for Kat on the PBE :
Death Lotus (R) cooldown changed from : 90/60/45 to 135/75/15
So yeah she is going to have 15sec on her ult in late game. Yeah 15sec is the same time of her passive.
And yeah, that is actually nerf. Because average game length does not go over 28min in this meta, and that at 28min, there is little to no chance that you have already hit level 16. Katarina will then have 135sec on her ult at level 6, which is a nerf that does not affect her much more than this, as all her damage come from her basic abilities in early-mid game, and not that much from ultimate. People can think of "wtf she can reset her ultimate CD with every kill, that is broken", and that is, but as I said it will not happen that much, given the shortness of average game length.
SO basically, Kata will get a nerf (that she totally deserves), WHILE being even more banned than she used to be -because people dont want of this champion that can basically reset on the whole team, without any skill (If i miss my ult? Nvm, can do it again, up to 4 times in a fight !) nor any counterplay.
If you guys really want to nerf Kata, nerf her on her shunpo : remove the auto attack reset that she has never got in the past, that was just a folk and useless buff to her already overloaded kit (just like Rengar's ult making him crit XD), making her so good at going all-in level 2 and getting a kill 85% of the time, while also nerfing her Hextech Gunblade build, and limiting her ability to push towers.
That was a message from a Katarina main that wants to play her champ - peace :)
TL;DR : changes are bad because :
- there is no real counterplay to getting instantly reset off by a Katarina,
- this not a buff below level 16, which you don't hit 100% games
- her ban rate will go up, which is sad for a nerfed champ
Nerf proposition : removing shunpo auto-attack reset
and/or
but she still does a lot with just her Q