does katarina top work?
I think it may work if you build her tank, and with some ap. She does exceptionally well against some tops full ap, olaf for example, she can dodge his axe with ease.
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Pick her into any bruiser with CC and while you may do something early watch as you steadily become less relevant as the game goes on
She gets destroyed by like all top laners .. so. Who cares about Olaf's axe ? He is just gonna lifesteal Kata's ult damage lol
Nah with the amount of cc top and her reliance on positioning I'd say no.
she shits on immobile top laners, not too many of those around anymore though.
Yeah but by having Katarina top, you loose a proper front liner unless your jungle and support go tank.... A lot like having akali or teemo top. Building bruiser on her seems like you're not really going to do what she's supposed to be doing and lots of proper top laners would do the job.
She gets crapped on against people with targeted abilities and people with hard CC.
Top lane has some of the most reliable hard CC in the game, so her ult is never gonna work.
It's also got lots of targeted gapclosers and targeted damage.
Against Olaf, for example, you'll Q+E+W combo stuff, and then get ran down with autos and E's. Once he see's you've used your last E (to retreat), he'll throw an axe and you'll be slowed.
He may have trouble tanking your ult, but stacking MR will fix that.
Hello!
If you want to play Kat top, I advice you something : get some standard ad/tank runes, a Stormraider's Surge, and these items :
or 
or 
(then take the one you didn't get yet)
And eventually : 
Max your E 1st to have the complete reset of your shunpo as soon as possible
I am not sure why, but this does derinitely work :) you are extremely tanky, you have a lot of mobility with the 30% CDR you have with this build (might as well get 10% CDR in runes if you want to) and your damages are just insanely good! If you have the time for it, definitely try this !
A fellow 
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