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Katarina needs to be fixed.

Sylvan Evergreen·11/26/2014, 5:13:42 AM·1 votes·1,841 views

I know that I'm the only one that think Katarina is extremely broken and overpowered and to be honest that makes me depressed. To know that no one agrees with me and that no one ever sees anything the way I see it. Anyways, lets get to the thread.

Q: Too spammable and does not require any skill at all. W: Does way too much damage to the usually squishy mages she goes against when her q hits them. E: Makes tower diving way too easy and makes it so you can't get near her for fear of her just QEWing you and taking half of your health. R: Do I even have to say anything about this? I'll add it in if needed.

Comment below about how balanced Kat is, how unskilled I am, how I don't know anything, how my opinion is crap, how you don't agree with me and I should uninistall, how creepy Teemo is, or if you are one of the few that agree with me feel free to comment anything below.

Have a nice day.

P.S. Forgot to mention her passive. Yep, her passive, the one that helps her abilities become even more spammable.

(EDIT): These threads always make me hate the community so much, for either being hostile or giving terrible suggestions. This sucks, fun game but hard to play with these kind of people. I guess the best people don't use the boards, I think I'll stop.

17 Comments

TehNACHO11/26/2014, 5:23:23 AM3 votes

Well to be fair, a lot of midlaners have at least some way of interrupting Kat's ult, oftentimes instantaneously.

Not to mention the ranged midlaners can position themselves so her Q either bounces at them and away from the minions (Thus, Kat can't farm and scales terribly) or the exact opposite of so (Thus, Kat has no bullying presence in lane).

Furthermore, her E's only the most problematic if you haphazardly use your abilities without being sure to punish Katarina every step of the way. For example, if Ahri uses her Orb of Deception to farm the minion wave, that's a 7 second window of opportunity for Katarina to jump onto Ahri with very little risk in terms of running into Ahri's burst damage since Ahri just used her (usually) strongest spell on minions and now can't use it on Kat. This tends to also be why assassins jump behind their targets. A well timed blink can negate skill shots like this, ultimately meaning that the less you respect Katarina's mobility, the more opportunities you give her to easily win trades while literally not having to worry about you throwing abilities back at her.

CreationFlaw11/26/2014, 9:40:52 AM2 votes

See, when you believe all of these are broken, then you're saying many champions are broken which nullifies the statement, you're just saying things that you dislike from forty different champions, and yet most of them are completely easy to shut down, with the exclusion of Zed's ult and Kalista's passive. For half of these, you can either build sustain, Armor penetration(Or Magic), Build QuickSilver Sash and completely destroy them, or buy a slowing item and kite them. If you don't counter build at all, then yeah, you're going to get fucked over. Especially when you build AD anivia or Mikaels on Veigar because you can't dodge a slow moving skillshot, or have 55 cs by 40 minutes.

Matthevv11/26/2014, 9:52:32 AM2 votes

Q range is super short on katarina. You have to keep your distance from her until she uses it on the minion wave then you harass her hard while it is on cooldwon.

E and w are also really short range as well. Your positioning is what will allow her to jump onto you and w. If you let her jump to you and you don't retaliate harder than she can hit, then it is your fault.

Katarina's kit is actually really easy to play around provided that you actually know what you are doing. Katarina got nerfs last patch, she doesn't need more. Heck, I would even argue that in high elo she didn't even need that last nerf. Katarina nerfs are always due to her abusing low elo players who don't know how to play against other champions.

Aroha Mai11/26/2014, 6:37:07 AM1 votes

Fine, we can try and fix kat...

But then, you will have to fix orianna for being the mage that every other mage froths at the mouth of.

Fix all the adc's for being relevant for all 5 seasons.

Setting a new "renekton bar".

Yeah let's try and fix kat, only for someone like Fizz to take her place because why not he is sooo weak right now right????

NewGrange11/27/2014, 9:34:20 PM1 votes

Give her either mana or energy, manaless champs are supposed to be hindered by CD.

Nausicäa 11/27/2014, 9:55:04 PM1 votes

Ya you're the only one in world who thinks shes OP.

Not like her ban rate in several regions including Korea is over 50%

o0Sasori0o11/27/2014, 10:56:21 PM1 votes

I totally agree with you! I actually had posted a similar post this morning.

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/b8sfOEgx-two-options-to-nerf-the-op-kat

Option 1: If Kat channels her ult more than 80% of her maximum channeling time, at the end of her ult, she will be stun for 1-2 second(s). (Just look at how she is spinning, doesn't she feels dizzy?).

Option 2: Kat now needs to use either mana or energy in order to use her abilities, so she can't keep on poking and spamming her abilities like crazy.