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Is it just me or does Katarina feel like she sucks now compared to the other assassins?

KatScript·4/1/2018, 2:59:54 AM·7 votes·2,764 views

Hello ladies and Gents, I just wanted to express my feelings on Katarina.

Pretty much all of the assassins can one-shot or burst with their rotations with no delays in damage. That is their job, what makes them categorized as an assassin in League of Legends. Talon, fizz, zed, rengar, and the leblanc revert are good examples of that. Players complain about how assassins destroy them or blow them up. But its so counterable. Don't be out of position, save your sums, wait for cc, back if u have low hp, make sure ur escape ability is up, or support is near by, etc. I've shut down so many assassins doing so.

Assassins are good at punishing mistakes, and/or bursting other carries, that's why they are "Assassins", they assassinate others, instantly kill them.

Katarina's rework feels like a nerf the higher I get in elo. Riot wanted to make the assassins more "counterable", but i feel like they only targeted a few specifics ones. Why make an assassin so damn counterable, they are an assassin. its their job to blow someone up in their rotations. Her q and w delayed dagger damage feels too long to be considered an assassin. Just doesn't feel like she meets the standards of the other assassins, she feels more like a mage who just zones out other players with dagger placements, Since its so counterable. U avoid the dagger and she's useless, despite already making her useless with any form of cc or an exhaust etc. I just don't get why she has delays in her kit, when she already is so reliant on her ultimate channeling for some time todo damage. Her e feels so unsmooth, not as instant or jumpy. Trading isn't as easy either, u throw a dagger or drop a w dagger and no one walks over it, u just jump around juking and "looking cool", but cant trade or do any damage because everyone knows what todo, not worth being more jumpy if u cant do anything with it. She falls off hard late game when adcs and tanks get items, unlike before her rework where she was a late game scaling team fighting beast. All game her dmg just feels so slow and delayed, skill doesn't help you outplay anymore, u just got to get lucky now. But a 0/3 zed or fizz can still oneshot anyone instantly. from level 3 and up. with barely an item or more. Just doesn't feel right or fair or even compared to the other assassins.

Katarina still feels unique, all the assassins feel unique in their own ways, she's still the spinning queen. But its not as fun to play her anymore, she doesn't feel like an assassin after her rework, and that takes the fun out of playing her specifically.

Thanks for reading! :D

Those are just my thoughts and feels.

[katarina-love]

9 Comments

Linna Excel4/1/2018, 3:52:16 AM2 votes

Her win rate at gold+ is 52%. It's hard to argue she's bad with that alone. Gunblade into morellos has a 60% win rate so she can win when she gets her core build. Her ban rate is 20% so clearly people don't want to play against her.

C9 Squeeky 4/1/2018, 4:20:09 AM1 votes

Somehow I feel like Reworked Irelia is a better Katarina.

Kyaza4/1/2018, 5:48:50 AM1 votes

I think the issue is that Kat was done with the other assasins, Riot said they were not happy with how these large group updates turned out and its why they discontinued them. To me she feels like malphite, she waits and waits for the perfect moment to jump in and deal her damage, she is not supposed to be chasing others down.

DW Diana4/1/2018, 9:19:21 AM1 votes

It's just you

The JigSAW4/1/2018, 5:25:02 PM1 votes

I seriously do not believe Riot understands exactly what an assassin is to start with. Their grading system is basically heavy on assists and farm over kills, which is the only reason assassins exist: Kills. I can't count the number of times I went 20 or 30 and 0 or 1 with akali or kat and gotten an A+ instead of an S - now, I know objectives always are preferred over kills and you can't win with kills (only blowing up the enemy nexus) but assassins are supposed to be the one role where you can go kill-crazy and actually -do- your job.

As a M7 Katarina, yes she's worse now then she was before in terms of her damage and skills. However, she's still quite lethal and excellent with the new Morellonomicon while having a more difficult early game. I'd take old Kat over current Kat anyday, and they did revert Kog when they realized the rework was a failure, so here's hoping Kat gets her old Q/W back right?

Plain Noob4/22/2018, 10:00:50 PM1 votes

I agree, I'm an older player and getting back into the game and although there have been a lot of good reworks (scion, eve, and now irelia) the ones that flop are really heartbreaking. Kat is at the forefront of this (along with Fiora) with her new dagger gimmick that really gets in the way of the unique katarina playstyle I used to love. She plays less like a badass precision killer and more of a fumbling dolt scrambling to pick up weapons she keeps dropping after the rework.

Verus2K4/1/2018, 3:46:02 AM1 votes

With that kit it should be near impossible to win with her, she's one of the picture perfect examples of feast or famine.

Useless if you can't get ahead or an unstoppable tactical nuke that has her full kit up again with every "teamfight" aka her legitimately rolling her face on a keyboard in the general direction of the enemy team.

Dead flag blues4/22/2018, 10:01:39 PM1 votes

Tristana is a better assassin