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Nerf Katarina please, she's far too strong

Śhunpo··1 votes·1,771 views

Seriously, this champion has 4 blinks that can ignore CC if she times them right, she can 1v5 with no effort AND she just one-shots me at all stages of the game.

I demand that this champion get nerfed, and the nerfs should be as follows:

  • Bouncing Blade (Q) only bounces once
  • Katarina's reset passive gets removed (seriously this passive is mega-broken)
  • Preparation (W) no longer should grant movement speed and it should take 3 seconds to drop
  • Shunpo's (E) cast time should be removed since she literally dodges every CC ability in the game with it
  • Death Lotus (R) only hits one person and she stops channeling upon getting hit by any form of damage
  • Gunblade gets removed from the game
  • Her passive scaling ratios should be removed
  • She cannot buffer any spells and there should be a 0.015 second delay where she can't take any action after casting each ability.

This champion is just so broken it's unbelievable, whoever designed the rework should be fired!

Oh, and don't get me started about all of those compilations of high elo Katarinas getting those pentakills, those Katarina players don't even play Katarina and they don't deserve to win!

I'm going to quit League of Legends until Riot nerfs Katarina into the ground, she's the most un-fun champion to face and she has literally no counterplay!!!!!

Meddler, if you read this, please, nerf her ASAP she's totally unfair to face and she's broken.

17 Comments

Warlord Rhinark3 votes

This isn't your everyday shitposting.

This is.

Advanced shitposting.

Śhunpo1 votes

We must advance past typical communication.

WoΘxer1 votes

Katarina is fine for me. She has risks if u bait her E she is vulnerable.

Śhunpo2 votes

But then she resets her E and gets out for free, that's broken.

WoΘxer1 votes

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But then she resets her E and gets out for free, that's broken.

She simply can't escape, she needs minions or use it as kiting (defensive).

Saezio1 votes

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She simply can't escape, she needs minions or use it as kiting (defensive).

It's a sarcastic post, have you not checked this person's name?

WoΘxer1 votes

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It's a sarcastic post, have you not checked this person's name?

Lol didn't even paid attention.

Śhunpo1 votes

According to Zed mains her Shunpo is broken, so it must be true.

Saezio1 votes

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But then she resets her E and gets out for free, that's broken.

This post is sarcastic isn't it? Katarina is extremely hard to pull off at the moment at least in high elo. In pre diamond I guess she can kinda work but her pickrate in masters and challengers across the world is pretty low

Śhunpo1 votes

Well, sarcasm aside Katarina needs some work done on her. Idc if they take a give and take approach, straight buff her, give her some QoL changes, they just need to do something.

I'm sarcastically calling for a nerf because then they'd realise just how ridiculously difficult it is to properly balance her current kit. Take it from the guy who mains Kat and can still agree with the comments surrounding her saying that she's frustrating to play against. That's what Kat is right now, frustrating to play against. They found a way to make her even more frustrating to play against than her pre-rework state which had "less counterplay".

Newsflash, Kat has arguably less counterplay now vs the same bad players she infuriated, especially since Gunblade exists. She's an absolute nightmare in low elo and she's a borderline troll pick in high elo. Riot promised us that they'd give her a laning phase. They did, but then they just as quickly nerfed it and now she arguably has a worse laning phase than she did pre-rework. Not only that she's even more oppressive when fed, making her a lot more frustrating to face and a true terror for Riot whenever they even touch her slightly.

The fact of the matter is that they truly cannot balance her current kit, what do you expect when you give a champion multiple dashes, frontload most of that champ's damage onto their passive and convert them into a pseudo AP-fighter. She went from being a pick-off champion to this skirmisher that can 1v1 really well post-Gunblade. Now that is a topic for another day since that relates to her rework almost entirely going against everything Katarina stood for in terms of her identity (nudge nudge, it has something to do with Voracity being overshadowed by her Dagger passive).

I mean this unironically, but Riot needs to either revert her, give her some (small) buffs coupled with QoL changes and they need to remove her E's cast time. I wasn't joking when I said that she can "avoid" CC, she can due to the cast time, and it's not fun for either side when that happens.

Saezio1 votes

I don't think she needs a revert, I think she is stronger now than pre rework, albeit more telegraphed. I think they should take some power away from the dagger and put it in her E (maybe make it totally reset from early game instead of having to be late game for it to actually work as a reset) Constant daggers are what feels awful when playing vs a Kata as a melee because you can kinda never go close to them

Śhunpo2 votes

She is most definitely stronger than pre-rework, can't deny that. I also agree with shifting some of her dagger's power over to her Shunpo. However I wouldn't say totally reset, there should be like an 0.7 second delay in the early game to ensure that there's at least an instance where opponents can opt out of all-inning with her. That and they should revert the damage nerf done to Shunpo as well removing the cast time. If that proves to be too much then perhaps they should further lower her numbers for a PBE patch to properly experiment with what changes would prove to be fair or unfair.

Yep, that's why I kinda hate her daggers. They feel awful to utilise against ranged opponents, oppressive when ahead vs melee opponents and they're honestly her only strong source of damage.

In all honesty I say that reverting her is an option since she never really was a balance issue before her rework, though she was extremely weak in lane (though currently she's even weaker in lane somehow so lol). With that said pre-rework Kat always had that factor of "if we drop too low and blow our CC she'll demolish us". Now it's pretty much like "well, if we make every single mistake known to mankind against her we might die". That comeback factor and teamfight fear factor is what made a lot of us enjoy pre-rework Katarina. Button-mashing statements aside, she was incredibly fun to play in teamfights once you went on that reset spree. Nothing felt better than that for Katarina players. Although I can understand the hate coming from the opposite end of the spectrum.

I just want something, anything that can make Katarina more fun for me to play as.

0 Hogapu1 votes

I see what you did there

Asking for nerfs, as balance team always does the opposite of what they're told to do..?

Śhunpo1 votes

No, I want nerfs so then she gets QoL changes or a revert :)

0 Hogapu1 votes

what do you expect with QoL changes btw?

The biggest one to me is the sunpo cast time, really

this sht is so annoying and it has no legitimacy whatsoever

I wouldnt want a decrease in daggers falling speed, cause people would ban her too much. lets not forget that we (or at the very least I) dont want her to have a huge ban/pick rate.

Śhunpo1 votes

QoL changes = either removing Shunpo's cast time or fixing the buffering in relation to Shunpo's cast time. Also possibly removing the lockout from moving in ultimate at the start and end and tweaking Shunpo's SFX+animation.

Decreasing her dagger falling speed is just asking for trouble since that's the only thing holding her back from being perma-ban status again. Don't think I don't remember how the subreddit was in arms last year when Kat had the 3rd highest banrate for almost 7 months, I know that they cannot buff her too much.

However, what I do know is that Shunpo's cast time is nonsensical right now as it creates more general fluidity issues for the Kat player than it does offer counterplay, and it offers very little since her daggers make up 99% of that said counterplay.

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