An important message from Katarina mains to Riot

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An important message from Katarina mains to Riot

In the link there are our opinions about Katarina's kit.

SOS Before you downvote it and spread toxicity to all Katarina mains listen this: We DONT WANT RIOT TO REVERT KATARINA. We would love if they were fixing some problems that made her unfun and frustated to play.

Please theres no need to write hate comments if you havent play Katarina and dont know how she works.

Lastly as all the people are complaining about their main champ and suggest some solutions to make him more fun to play , we do the same thing about Katarina. I repeat we DONT WANT A REVERT. We are considering every one and we abselutely dont want our main to be click to win :)

Thank you all for reading and we would be very happy if team members will take our thoughts into consideration. :D

5 Comments

Mas172 votes

As someone who's (whose?) favorite champion is Katarina and at one point used to play her most of the time spent playing, although at a mostly casual level.

I feel split about a possible revert. New Kat has interesting elements, but I personally enjoyed the pre-revert version way more.

The most fun and exciting thing for me to do in the game, at the time, was having a wave come in, kill the melee minions as fast as possible while trying to avoid getting attacked only to then be able to throw a dagger at the furthest caster from the enemy champion, get it to bounce on them and following it up with E-W, and in particular the best part was playing mind games with the enemy to feign the timing of the shunpo and the escape from the retaliation (if they weren't too scared to actually retaliate)

Then again, I also know that the reworked Katarina actually has more damage, but it's just not quite the same. The daggers on the ground mechanic doesn't do it for me.

Bent Pixels1 votes

I find Kat super fun right now, but I also am not necessarily a Kat main, I jst play her sometimes but whenever I do I always do relatively good with her so I may start maining her now that I think about it. Anyway, I love playing her but I think some more complexity in her kit would be nice (I'm all about hard champions). However, I'm not a fan of how touchy her R is. A good portion of the times I press R it instantly stops and I deal zero damage, but that's probably something I can easily fix.

Ragnaveil1 votes

Or maybe give it a cast lockout simliar to how Akali's R has a lockout between R1 and R2 (though to balance her assassination power from being godlike in Akali's situation). Not saying it has to be a massive lockout, but a decent one. Something like 1 or 1.25 seconds sounds nice, but also open to maybe .75 if people who play and main her would think something like that could help. I feel it would help so that people that accidentally input a move command when they ulted don't get mega screwed over and have this long cooldown to ponder over as "I fucked up super hard."

End of the day, I don't really play her, but I understand where these people are coming from. People think that some champions that can be "overbearing" at times have mains and players that want to have their champion at the top and terrorizing the ladder. Reading that post should be a wake up call to the community that not all mains and players of champs like Kat, Yasuo, Riven, etc are not power thirsty assholes, but people trying to make their champ fun but also still be balanced so people don't need to instantly be like, "Oh, this so and so person on this champ is gonna feed so hard." or "We need to ban this champ because its too overpowered despite being very under powered in other ELOs (Yasuo)." If the community wants change like this, they need to lay off the non-info personal bias hate posts and try to be what Gameplay + is trying to be: A community that discusses changes, brings up ideas with use of good concise info they can get their hands on, and work together as a community to help Riot with balancing the game to be fun for both causal and hardcore fans alike.

Right now the community is split between people who don't want to put an ounce of effort to giving ideas with info and would rather bitch all day, and people who use precise and correct info in their posts and people hate said champion and downvote the post into oblivion. I'm gonna make a post later (or shortly after I post this comment) about my experiences with this game that i've had for over 5/6 years, and bring up this kind of issue and ask Riot a favor or something (depends). I'd advise anyone who reads this to read that post when it comes out, it will be either under Gameplay (where we are currently) or General Discussion. Thank you.

(Sure, i've had comments in the past that were defending Yasuo, and I used ELO and knowledge as a pedestal for my arguements, but now that just doesn't matter to me anymore. It hurts me a lot seeing the community like this: Broken, Confused, and Divided. This game has done great things for me in my life during the worst of times (will mention in the post), and I just feel helpless in trying to fix these issues. I'll speak more of this in the post since i've already dragged this comment on long enough.)

LTK KoRo1 votes

You all basically want to remove kat weaknesses without giving anything in exchange, just no. She needs some small delays, if she won't have them, she'll go back to 0.5 secs pentakill machine

Śhunpo1 votes

Removing Shunpo's cast time would not do that alone, it would take Riot significantly reducing her dagger drop times as well for that to happen.

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