What to do about Katarina

KitsuneQuasar··0 votes·1,069 views
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There are too many games in which a whole team is losing lane except the Katarina on their team. Then the Katarina magically makes the entire opposing teams dissapear (Last time I checked Assassin meant someone who takes out people individualy not explode like a nuke and kill everything). My suggestions to Balance Katarina is to: Make her use mana; /or make her Sinister steal (W) range 100 instead of 375 /or make her passive that she is entirely cool-down based she doesn't use mana that is a good enough passive as it is.(the 15 seconds off her cooldowns is bogus even if she does have to kill/assist within a 3 second threshold she can instakill them with ease even with magic resist).

I am hoping you found my ideas somewhat sane. But untill then any game with a Katarina is a stomp unless you have a Katarina on your team.(53.85% winrate based off studies by http://loldb.gameguyz.com/statistics/winRate)

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The5lacker3 votes

Why do people think mana is the only thing keeping some champs from imploding entire enemy teams?

No T1ts B1TCH2 votes

Katarina does a lot of damage. I don't like playing against her but she has her counters. You just have to find them. 1 I use to play against her is Diana. Her E stops kats ult. She can be beaten you just have to find the right match up.

ReiAngel2 votes

Doesnt Riven not use mana either?? And yet she kicks too much butt. I've had numerous occasions where she has gone to other lanes, winning lanes and does a complete turn around. Kat i like, Riven i dont. LONG LIVE NOXUS!!

The5lacker2 votes

Did I say "Man Kat is uncounterable and so OP?"

No. I asked why people thought that mana gating is the most relevant way of limiting a champion's power. If Kat used mana, she would still have all of her damage, all of her resets, and all of her mobility. Unless her mana costs were unreasonably high, they wouldn't really effect her playstyle much other than make it slightly harder for her to push lane to gank.

KitsuneQuasar1 votes

Because it keeps her from early game ganks and it keeps her from farming super hard.

The5lacker2 votes

Kat's kit is excruciatingly poorly suited for farming. Her base damages are terrible and she has to get into melee range for basically everything.

Plus, every champion has a special, manaless, 100% AD scaling targeted ability with a less than 2 second cooldown for farming. And Kat's has a range of 125, unlike basically every other midlaner.

Aionius1 votes

Im sorry, but Katarina is not unbeatable. Hell press her hard with good harass and CC early game. Use ganks if you have to, and then Katarina gets hard pressed to keep up. She has literally ZERO sustain, and practically no durability. She gets focused, she dies quickly. Basically a glass cannon that has to be used like a Bowie Knife to get things done. If you can't exploit that, then it's all your fault for poor strategy, not because Kat is OP.

 Say what you want, but it takes more than damage output to be 'OP'. Take ![Irelia](https://ddragon.leagueoflegends.com/cdn/16.20.1/img/champion/Irelia.png)  and ![Riven](https://ddragon.leagueoflegends.com/cdn/16.20.1/img/champion/Riven.png) for example.  The Former sustains and takes hits like an M1A2 Abrams battletank and hurts you like one, and WILL get you rekt in a heartbeat with hard CC, and farms CS like a boss too. The later can dance around you, stun or knock you up, and then punish you once that R is hit. Then you have her Valor (E), low CD Gap Close and Escape... WITH A SHIELD, and also her Passive gives bonus damage on AA when her abilities are used.  

The funny thing to mention also is this....Riven along with Diana (who also hard counters Kat in Mid big time played right)... built right can Jungle, Lane Top, or Lane Mid. Katarina can't even dream of Top Lane play, unless you want to feed Irelia Fiora Talon Darius Rengar Riven Fizz like it's an all you can eat buffet.

Critmaster Garen1 votes

you save 1 of your cc abilities in the entire team for her ult.

that is literally all you have to do. kat really only thrives on poor communication and coordination of your own team. i guess, thats why shes good at the bottom of solo que, and in normals.

also, what is it with you people and manaless champions? throughout the history of this game, mana champs have been far more broken than manaless champs. and often its not even the aspect that theyre manaless that makes them hard to deal with.

KitsuneQuasar1 votes

Im not against most manaless champions. aatrox and vladimire are balanced. Its just manaless champions that use nothing but cooldowns like tryndamere and katarina inspire booring and un-intuitive game-play in lanes for they can out sustain any champion that uses mana.

Critmaster Garen1 votes

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Im not against most manaless champions. aatrox and vladimire are balanced. Its just manaless champions that use nothing but cooldowns like tryndamere and katarina inspire booring and un-intuitive game-play in lanes for they can out sustain any champion that uses mana.

tryndamere is really the worst choice of a manaless champ you could have picked. nearly his entire damage comes from his auto attacks.

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