My god riot destroyed katarinas entire identity/

Succubús GF·Nov 11, 2016·8 votes·538 views

The sinister steel? More like the dropped weapon. Seriously. Farmin on its own as katarina at lv 1-11 s frustrating as hell. Her w is extremely slow, like probably the slowest and most obvious animation in the game. What the actual hell. How do you even attempt to play her. You basically rely on e w and passive. Her q and ult are basically useless. Like they are the lesser form of what they were. What, 7 targets, to 3? No more ward hopping, no more fun. I literally spent 2 seasons and 50$ on a champion i dont even like anymore.

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ZT XperimentorNov 11, 20163 votes

Lost identity and what made their old fans enjoy playing them? As if she's the only one . . . Cassiopeia Fiora Graves Karma Kassadin Malzahar Mordekaiser Poppy Shen Sion Skarner Sona Soraka Swain Urgot Vladimir Xerath Yorick

Succubús GFNov 11, 20162 votes

Riot is just ruining the game for old fans

ZT XperimentorNov 11, 20161 votes

Preaching to the choir on that one; I used to play ~1/3 of the champions I just listed regularly before they were reworked.

Succubús GFNov 11, 20161 votes

I hardly play cass anymore, Old soraka was so fun. I kinda miss old poppy, but her kit was cancer so it made sense. The point being i dont understand why they rework all these champions in a way that the community hates?

ZT XperimentorNov 11, 20161 votes

I agree some where inherently problematic, but riot has the habit of going too far or not far enough.

ZoeeeeNov 11, 20161 votes

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I hardly play cass anymore, Old soraka was so fun. I kinda miss old poppy, but her kit was cancer so it made sense. The point being i dont understand why they rework all these champions in a way that the community hates?

Old poppy was a bucket (hammer?) of fun, but her laining was pure trash. I played a lot of poppy jungle.

SukishooNov 11, 20161 votes

I disagree on a lot of these. I love their updates, they brought some actual cohesive gameplay to the champions. Making them not a mash of shit that was tossed together but skills that actually work together.

Purple DeathNov 11, 20162 votes

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I disagree on a lot of these. I love their updates, they brought some actual cohesive gameplay to the champions. Making them not a mash of shit that was tossed together but skills that actually work together.

I think most people would agree with you on the skills working together bit but the problem with katarina's rework is her lack of meaningful damage and an effective way to output it in the laning phase that is the issue here.

SukishooNov 11, 20161 votes

Well when she's not banned I've seen some pretty decent matches come from her, so I dunno. I think people just need to give it a bit of a chance since it's not even been out that long. If there are really issues after awhile, then they'll be looked at (lolriot), and maybe get better.

ZT XperimentorNov 11, 20161 votes

Yeah I'd say a few were good, like poppy & sion; others were clearly just forgotten butcherings, like skarner and vladimir. Most are the later category, and these are just a set of some that've been reworked multiple times.

Purple DeathNov 11, 20162 votes

Ya I thought her laning would get better but to my surprise it is EXTREMELY hard. Before it was manageable with a decent range W now reworked to a higher damage W with a 1.25 Second Delay on it. You cannot farm with autos because the new assassins or any other champ for that matter will take 1/3 of your health bar. You cannot trade back because your damage comes from jumping onto one of your daggers and jumping back to minions but 76% cdr on shunpo isnt enough to do that before the enemy laner takes your health bar. Q is impossible to farm with because of the reduced damage and high af CD. She is essentially the worst champion in terms of laning phase. Complete trash until 3 items.

MunchCrunchLunchNov 11, 20161 votes

because spamming Q was fun right?

Halodjin TyrNov 11, 20161 votes

she's total shit compared to every other champion in the game, and I thought Evelynn was going to suck this season even she is better then this bullshit.