the removal of silence, and the uprise of Katarina

calforrai·10/22/2014, 8:27:32 AM·3 votes·895 views

quite simply put, with the removal of silence/interupt from champs such as Talon, LB, Viktor is Riot gona do something about Katarina or channeled spells in general? if multiple champions are nerfed, those that were left untouched will certainly get stronger in comparison Katarina still has the same weaknesses but lately her win rate is ridiculous. LB can still beat Katarina 1 v1 but not in a teamfight scenario,

Many ppl have asked for LB to have silence again since the patch while i disagreed because I understand how hard it was to face the original LB too. since her QR or QW allow the silence to be proced quite easily before either Q mark should be able to break channel like kassadin's null sphere or LB can silence a target when she casts QE or just E. to be honest LB will still be quite useless if granted that change But at least it there's a better chance of stopping Katarina's onslaught.........

7 Comments

67chrome10/22/2014, 8:56:03 AM3 votes

is Riot gona do something about Katarina or channeled spells in general?

Channeled spells have the massive draw back that:

  • You have to stand still to utalize them
  • opponents can often walk out of their radius. While you're standing still to use them.
  • Channels can interrupted by knock-backs
  • Channels can interrupted by pulls
  • Channels can interrupted by knock-ups
  • Channels can interrupted by stuns
  • Channels can interrupted by fear
  • Channels can interrupted by charms
  • Channels can interrupted by polymoprhs
  • Channels can interrupted by silence
  • Channels can interrupted by suppression

Silence is hardly the only countermeasure to channels. They're among the easiest abilities to work around with the most obvious countermeasures. Also - 4 champions not having a silence in a game of ~120 champions isn't going to effect Katarina's win rate pretty much at all.

Dunderflump10/22/2014, 9:00:58 AM2 votes

Katarina isn't any better than she was before.

Smoke Krug10/22/2014, 8:29:22 AM1 votes

taric

ProfDrDeath10/22/2014, 8:48:45 AM1 votes

Viktor still has his interrupt. And Katarina was as deadly in solo queue as she is now before even the LeBlanc changes.

Solidair310/22/2014, 1:53:45 PM1 votes

Viktor's ult still interrupts channels, so if you use it wisely, you won't take a full Kat ult.

Sightless6610/22/2014, 3:31:29 PM1 votes

Viktor ult still interrupts channels.