Katarina poll

No4Skins·9/30/2017, 12:35:45 AM·2 votes·602 views

Can we do an official Katarina rework poll put out by riot? It seems that a lot of people are unsatisfied with the rework (every poll I have checked, the old Kat won). The point is player satisfaction and many are not feeling satisfied with new Kat as she isn't the same champion anymore. The rework was very unnecessary. Sure the name is the same and she jumps around but that's not what made people fall in love with her. If we do an unofficial poll where people think their vote actually matters, we will see how people truly feel. Thanks for reading this.

8 Comments

Fütanari9/30/2017, 12:46:59 AM2 votes

wow. I guess I'm the only one who liked old kat. hate new one.

FLASH SHUNPO11/11/2017, 5:43:53 AM2 votes

Can i just say, thank you for carrying on the attempt to get old kat back. It's the only way I had fun playing league of legends except soraka in a certain patch, and if she's not returned I won't play league again. This account is currently hacked (although they didn't change my password for some reason) and I'm not even changing the password because I'm just glad it can be put to some use. That's how much I only played this game for kat

Aatrox Mid 1v59/30/2017, 12:41:33 AM1 votes

Old katarina was toxic. There was essentially nothing you could do because she bursts you too fast. thats why they added the daggers, to give you time to react.

Curious Kat9/30/2017, 1:36:33 AM1 votes

IDK, i like the new Kat, it's a great start to something, but i think it has it's problems. The main problem being outplaying her daggers.

Anyone with half a fucking brain cell knows, if you avoid the dagger on the ground, you just halfed her damage. She can't kill you by just Shunpoing and ulting, well, unless she got fed, but at that point literally anyone can do the same thing. That's not champ specific, that's just how the game works.

I really think her W is the source of the problem though. It takes too damn long to land to be useful in anything. Half the time i use her W just to get that Shunpo reset, or for the speed boost to avoid a gank, and that's it. It's only ever useful in very narrow situations, like camping in a bush, and using it before they face check the bush.

When have you ever had time to stand there and wait for her W to land on top of her. You're like a sitting duck. And in this meta, that shit don't fly.

Maybe if they up'd the speed that her W dagger hits the ground, or even gave her Q one more bounce again, that would fix a lot of the issues. As of right now, in this tank CC that does damage, and adc right click you meta, there is no use from Kata. Especially since she can't blow you up super fast anymore, combined with support shields for 80% of their HP bar. So bursting the ADC is out of the question more times than not.

Infinite Saught9/30/2017, 11:46:32 AM1 votes

You're going to get varying answers on this because people are literally divided on how they feel about pre and post-update Katarina.

Generally for Post-Update Katarina...

Most Katarina mains you ask (ie, if you were to say this in /r/Katarinamains, you'd get downvoted to hell cause echo-chambers) will say the update was a success and was the best thing to happen to Katarina. Some mains will say they don't like it because it's too slow and kind of sluggish due to dagger drop rate. While all Katarina Mains are aware of the (and agree that it is an) issue with dagger drop rate, most don't really care about it or really mention it anymore due to acceptance/trade off for more power.

When you talk to non-Katarina mains about it, most of them will say she's a nightmare to lane against if the enemy Kat knows how to play her. On the other hand, if they don't, it's easy for them to win due to Katarina's high skill table (the enemy Katarina is bad and goes 0/7 in lane). This also leads to why Riot doesn't do anything at all with Katarina; her skill table is so high that few people can actually play her well enough to make her seem toxic in lane. The trade off for this (besides the high skill table) is lack of meaningful late game.

For Pre-Update Katarina...

Nearly all Katarina Mains liked Pre-Update Katarina a lot due to how quick she assassinated champions. What they didn't like (for some reason...) was her lack of early game power and her immense feast-famine. All in all, she was fun, but only if you managed to get fed.

Similarly, most people didn't like to go against Pre-Update Katarina due to the fact there was no counterplay to a fed Katarina (mostly due to her speed...).

Generally, there's not much to say about Pre-Update Katarina.

No4Skins9/30/2017, 1:20:21 AM1 votes

Its either she was too weak or too strong people... Everyone is saying different shit. If she could burst you down before you could react, she was probably 20/0 and thats not the champions fault, but the fault of your team. And she was not unplayable. She was in the perfect spot. If you knew what you were doing, you would do good.

Cup of Cocoa9/30/2017, 12:56:17 AM1 votes

The rework was necessary in my opinion. The old Katarina was too strong, so they nerfed her to the ground to the point where she was boring and unplayable. Now her mechanics are smooth and very interactive and fun. The only thing I dislike is that you can no longer Shunpo to wards, but besides that, the new Katarina is by far superior to the old one.