@Meddler

You might as well not bother beating around the bush.

Why are you removing Katarina's shunpo?

I've seen this dance a lot, and you guys have consistently ruined champions involving reworks.

1. Skarner is either broken, or unviable.

2. Zyra is flat out broken.

3. Soraka is the literal definition of game warping.

4. Ryze is going to change everything there is to know about lane mechanics, will indirectly change the entire csing/tower mechanics and thus change the entire state of the game, and also be broken.

5. Mordekaiser. Basically unviable.

6. Quinn: Is either a God, or unviable.

7. Gangplank: Broken

So far consistently every champion you guys touch either becomes so powerful that they're permabanned. Or so unviable that they can't even be played realistically. This gets even trickier with assassins.

Assassins = instant burst + death. Their design in itself is toxic. They have to be toxic. Do you know what happened to assassins with the adc itemizations? They became borderline unviable. If you couldn't kill an adc in less than a second, then they go on to live. That's just how it is.

So, now you guys already stated this isn't a "rework." You're basically nerfing the entire class across the board for "less toxic game play." You're adding a good second to a fed assassins damage output.

I got one word for you.

This stops assassins in their tracks already. What's stopping people from just making them become never picked again because of this? Tanks already build a "single" ap item and do assassin level damage. So why nerf assassins?

I know you keep mentioning this . . . "less toxic gameplay." But the toxicity of their kit actually needs to be there if they ever intend to be viable. Otherwise, there's no reason to pick them over more control burst.

Anyways, this brings back to Katarina.

Why pick her?

Her lane phase sucks.

Currently:

Q is actually needed to actually even be able to harass while csing.

W: Is basically a csing tool/kiting ability thingy mabob/ burster for resets.

E: More or less the ability that makes Katarina Katarina. She nukes people that aren't paying attention ridiculously fast and bolts out. You take this away for "safer gameplay." I don't really know what you mean by that . . . but what I feel like I'm hearing is some really crappy dash mechanic thing with a skill shot attached to it that doesn't even reset.

Also let's be honest, you're turning Q into a skill shot.

So it's safe to assume Q and E will be skill shots. Katarina's reset chain killing will no longer be a thing. She'll be another crappy character like That's so over loaded with counter play that she becomes an absolutely trash champion. While her identity becomes more or less ruined.

The thing about Katarina is: She needs her resets. She needs her aoe burst, and she needs her blink get away, otherwise she's not Katarina. You take any one of those away, and I can find 8 more champions that do her job better than her instantly for less work.

If you don't agree with me?

Slap a thunderlords decree on him and buy Tiamat. Does everything Kat does, only with CC + armor pen.

Flash into the team.

Land a triple barrel.

Press R.

You take away reset. All 4 of these champions accomplish her job, only more reliably, with less thought process behind it, and are overall better build path wise. Also have better lanes, better team potential, and just general consistency.

Another thing is:

Consistency

One of the good reasons that Kat is a pretty good "stomper" if played really well, is it punishes players out of position that would have previously gotten away just by using one of their 50 mobility spells. Kat is mobile yes, she's a champion with the ability to I guess blink in and out of existence. But she also punishes players too reliant on escapes because she can frankly point click them. And point click abilities will always be needed for consistencies sake, otherwise a lot of scripting will begin to overload your game, and upper mmr will start to get astoundingly stupid. I already saw it in Gunz, and frankly all immobile champions will cease to see play.

I doubt you read all of this, but this brings me to the question.

Katarina is actually already a really balanced champion, so why are you intending to nerf her damage, and also in general nerf her entire kit for the sake of "less toxicity."

Especially when the majority of mages do insta death kills regularly.

P.S:

You've already upset a lot of former champion mains. Please don't go down that road. Yet again.

I write this not as a Katarina one trick, but as a person that's seen a fair share of champs handled stupidly and I really don't want to see a season 1 champion burned to the ground. Again.

additional p.s

If you have to make an ability a skill shot, make the Q a stupid skill shot. I already know you're going to include a stupid skill shot for "muh outplay."