New Katarina Just Feels Bad For Everyone.

Hrd2H1t··1 votes·1,342 views

League has had some very binary champions, but I feel like the new Katarina is one of the worst if not the worst. The entire fate of the game is decided upon one thing: Katarina's first change in her KDA. If Katarina kills before she dies, she will become unstoppable, will get at least a triple kill, and her team will win. If Katarina dies before she kills, she might as well try to cut a hot knife with butter. She will feed, and her team will lose.

AND BEFORE YOU SAY IT IN THE COMMENTS, I AM NOT SAYING IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO WIN WHEN BEHIND AS KATARINA. THIS IS HYPERBOLE USED TO BACK MY POINT THAT KATARINA IS BINARY AND FEELS AWFUL.

But seriously though, its extremely hard to bounce back from or as Katarina. With most other champions you can still be effective when a few kills behind, but Katarina just can't do anything. Personally I do not know nearly enough about the game to know exactly what needs to be changed, but I would assume it would be reasonable to increase base damage while decreasing scaling, just to make her feel a lot less binary.

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Tormentula2 votes

Let me put in my 2 cents,

So I loved playing old katarina, and planned on adding her to my main mids. I played her to level 4, and then her assassin rework got announced, so I decided to stop playing her since I didn't want to get too comfortable. Then her rework was released and it felt absolutely awful.. I hated it, I've made threads and comments all over these boards about how malzahar'd she feels.

Just because I like katarina as a character, I decided to just keep giving it a go... and eventually I figured her out. After I learned how to properly setup and how much damage I do, I kinda like new kat now.

I will say anybody who's a one trick katarina or a katarina main, will have a significantly harder time playing league if new kat isn't their same playstyle as old kat. I can see a one trick giving her up just because she feels so different and they won't like it. She's as satisfying as old kat, but she feels skillfully better IMO, just those first 1-5 games may make you give up adding her to your champ pool until you see the next kat quadrakill in ranked and try it again.

As far as the "snowballing" issue your describing, this sounds like every assassin to me. If you want champions that are super reliant on kills or they will become utterly useless, complain about: AurelionSol Evelynn Elise Draven Fiddlesticks Kindred Nidalee Quinn Teemo TwistedFate + every other assassin.

zaire901 votes

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Let me put in my 2 cents,

So I loved playing old katarina, and planned on adding her to my main mids. I played her to level 4, and then her assassin rework got announced, so I decided to stop playing her since I didn't want to get too comfortable. Then her rework was released and it felt absolutely awful.. I hated it, I've made threads and comments all over these boards about how malzahar'd she feels.

Just because I like katarina as a character, I decided to just keep giving it a go... and eventually I figured her out. After I learned how to properly setup and how much damage I do, I kinda like new kat now.

I will say anybody who's a one trick katarina or a katarina main, will have a significantly harder time playing league if new kat isn't their same playstyle as old kat. I can see a one trick giving her up just because she feels so different and they won't like it. She's as satisfying as old kat, but she feels skillfully better IMO, just those first 1-5 games may make you give up adding her to your champ pool until you see the next kat quadrakill in ranked and try it again.

As far as the "snowballing" issue your describing, this sounds like every assassin to me. If you want champions that are super reliant on kills or they will become utterly useless, complain about: AurelionSol Evelynn Elise Draven Fiddlesticks Kindred Nidalee Quinn Teemo TwistedFate + every other assassin.

she was my most played prerework since i started off playing her and i was considering giving her up cause i hated the playstyle but ill give her another shot cause of what you said

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