Turn Katarina's Q into a Skillshot

Genova Fearbane··8 votes·1,272 views

So she might actually take some skill. With Rito's recent updates changing many targeted Q's into skillshots, (I.E. Ryze, Veigar) I thought perhaps this could apply nicely to Katarina. With all of her abilities being targeted or AOE, she just doesn't have much in the way of weaknesses, other than hard targeted CC. It becomes extremely difficult to fight her, especially late game, as long as she can get 1 reset, it usually means another is on the way. I've seen Katarinas 1v3 or 1v5 way too often for her to be considered balanced in her current state. But the addition of a skillshot into her kit actually forces players to think about where they aim it, rather than just clicking on the nearest target in range. This could also apply to the dagger bounce, each being an individual skillshot aimed at the nearest enemy in range, which can be blocked, dodged, or juked, and the bouncing would simply end there. While this idea has some mechanical intricacies to work out, the basic idea remains a good one in my opinion, and it won't really decrease Katarina's power. Simply make her more difficult, hence the skill.

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Voluug134 votes

Zilean Ryze Veigar

They say yes.

SnugglePuggle944 votes

I say no. Her kit is just fine.

Genova Fearbane1 votes

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I say no. Her kit is just fine.

You're a bronze 5 player who plays Katarina a lot. I guess adding a skillshot would make her too difficult for you. If you would like to back up your statement with an explaination I'd love to hear it.

EbonRypper2 votes

How about the fact that it eliminates the need to ward or facecheck a brush to do more damage, and still allows her to get her marks on you, and since it's BOUNCING Blades, that means she can possibly hit more targets, and Rito usually BUFFS the damage of moves turned into skillshots. So then you'll have a Katarina that can apply Q through a stronger skillshot move, that still can bounce to other targets, makes facechecking unnecessary, gives her better target acquistion in the right hands, and improves damage.

You just gave a good idea to make Katarina stronger than weaker.

SnugglePuggle941 votes

I agree.

SnugglePuggle942 votes

Wow. How rude. FYI, I was in Bronze 2 but was unlucky in almost every one of my matches as I kept on getting trolls and unskilled players to where I dropped to division 5. But still, how rude of you to say that. I think she's just fine with her Q. I play many others with skillshots and can play them just fine, but I don't want Katarina's kit messed with. That's it.

Vicvictorw3 votes

You can't fix everything with skillshots.

As I've posted before, I think the best thing to do to her Q would be either reduce or eliminate the bounce.

If not that, then pull some damage from the projectile itself and put it on the mark to give her more reason to take a risk.

Genova Fearbane1 votes

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You can't fix everything with skillshots.

As I've posted before, I think the best thing to do to her Q would be either reduce or eliminate the bounce.

If not that, then pull some damage from the projectile itself and put it on the mark to give her more reason to take a risk.

You can't fix everything, but it seems that this could be one of them. Eliminating the bounce makes it an Akali Q, uninteresting, lack of uniqueness, etc. Though I agree with your last statement.

Vicvictorw3 votes

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You can't fix everything, but it seems that this could be one of them. Eliminating the bounce makes it an Akali Q, uninteresting, lack of uniqueness, etc. Though I agree with your last statement.

I dunno- really not digging the idea of Katarina with a skillshot.

It gives her more kill options and can make her somewhat safer. If someone is fleeing from a Katarina into a bush that she doesn't have vision of, she has to facecheck it to get more damage in, as opposed to just tossing a Q into the bush for the kill.

She'd never have to facecheck a bush again.

Voluug132 votes

You can't fix everything with skillshots.

Tell that to Riot.

Sukishoo1 votes

Fill my item 3070 . We don't need to try and make everything a SKILL shot. Katarina does take a lot of skill to get her full potential, which is why she has a difficulty level of 8.

Abyssphere1 votes

Why do you want it to be a skillshot? Right now its targeted nature means it has to be short ranged, but if it were made a skillshot it'd be given much higher range. Yes it's very reliable now but because of its short range, she can get bullied when she runs up to use it. Make it a skillshot and the range will get increased to the point where you can't harass her before she uses it and because she's resourceless she won't lose anything for missing it anyway.

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