Is it just me or Does Katarina need nerfs.

EzraTwitch·2/7/2015, 7:25:30 PM·3 votes·358 views

To be clear, I know how to play against this champ, I know to save CC for her ult but it just doesn't seem to matter. She only needs one successful roam to run away with the game even if you have been shutting her down. Its just super frustrating to do what your supposed to do and SAVE cc for her ult only to have it not matter because in the time it takes for your stun to get to her shes already done over 75% of your health. I really feel they need to keep the damage of her ult but stretch the channel time back out to 3 seconds so Stunning her in the middle of it actually makes a difference.

3 Comments

Kuroi862/7/2015, 8:50:42 PM2 votes

And further punishes Kat for using her ult which has already been nerfed. Willing to hear nerf ideas, but expect me to poke holes.

xl Kirito lx2/7/2015, 10:51:14 PM2 votes

A few things to remember:

Roams are universal, every mid laner roams. Ultimately there really isn't a way to nerf her roaming potential. She already has poor wave clear early game, in comparison to other mages like Ziggs or Vel'koz.
You can bring up build differences or runes / masteries, but katarina doesn't seem to have massive single target assassination potential without DFG. If you're levels down and behind in items, then you should be expected to lose that fight.
Katarina's lane phase is painful. She's a melee mage, she gets outtraded against a large portion of mids. If she uses any of her abilites on the wave, she pushes the wave.

Whenever I see a fed Katarina, it's usually because the opponent didn't call mia's, or the bot lane wasn't watching the map. This is just what I've noticed, but Katarina doesn't have some of the advantages of other laners -- sustain, wave clear, safe poke. Honestly, I'm not sure what they could take from her, or how they could nerf her. Maybe give the other team permanent sight of Katarina so she can't roam?

aaronconlin2/7/2015, 8:29:48 PM1 votes

I just recently played against a Katarina as Vel'Koz. I did fine in the beginning, would knock her up when she ulted and then back off as I was usually almost dead. Then out Lee Sin gave her a kill and she snowballed out of control. She would shun po in and kill me under tower without even using her ult.

On a side note, Lee afk'd and said "I'm going to AFK and talk shit about vel for feeding kat", lol