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Thought on Katarina

KnifePlayer·5/26/2015, 5:03:22 PM·4 votes·1,123 views

Hello, I posted an Idea for Katarina on the Euw boards and wanted to post it here too.

Recently i started seeing a lot of Katarina's. I think I might have found a potential temporary solution for her.

So the main problem I (that's me, not you) have with Kata is that she can do ALL her damage to all the targets. And that all over again every time she kills (which is instantly, let's be honest) So if someone survives she can still kill the ones that survive with almost the same damage.

So here is my idea: make her abilities do less damage with the more people she hits. For every champion (starting from 2, so if its only 1 target it's full damage but 2 champion reduce the damage by 10-20%)she hits she could deal like 5-10% less damage.

This would still give her the assassin feeling of I can delete 1 person. But would reduce her ability to go kill an entire team without having to think about it. It's also not her role to assassinate an entire team. No assassin should be able to do that IMO. It's also fitting, I mean with that : It's gives a bit of a feeling of defense to the one who try to save the target (in the style of: support defending the adc).I think it adds some counter-play.

For those who will go hate on this idea saying it would destroy her. I would counter argue that with my reduction you lose max. 50% to the WHOLE team. That still is a lot if you think about it. And again it's not her role to go fight like that. And even with that reduction, once she kill someone she could do most of her damage again.

Also I know : "but cc counters her" But who doesn't cc counter ? (Except Olaf.) And get that cc on her in less than 0.46 sec.

That was my idea, if you like it give it an up vote so that more people could see it.(Maybe even Riot) If you don't like it, give your thought and say what you would change. This is just an idea and an opinion.

Thank you for reading.

So that was it. Again thank you for reading, KnifePlayer

2 Comments

LilxPaprika5/26/2015, 9:04:30 PM2 votes

Also I know : "but cc counters her" But who doesn't cc counter ? (Except Olaf.) And get that cc on her in less than 0.46 sec.

I was thinking more like something around the lines of if she shunpos he ult takes longer to trigger. winds up. since its hard to keep track of where she is by the time you find her in the disorienting chaos that is a team fight and go to cc her. depending on the form of cc that might have to reach her the ult is typically done with anyways.

or how about if she q's someone there's a timer like udyr stun or yasuo dash to someone. whereby so long as that timer is up anytime she q's them again it will be 50% less damage.
or just give her resets but resets are worth 50% as much damage (either to all targets or just recently damaged targets). if used in two short a succession. kind of like kassadin ult. if he spams ult it comes at a cost.

I mean resets are nice just for the ability to shunpo out and the get movement from sinister steel. which imo has too short a cooldown imo. 4 sec real. its even a blink which is one of the strongest relocation in the game. you get the kill and use resets to get out. right now she gets the kill and gets more kills and more and more.

thats what i think it was originally intended for like tristana w. as tristana i don't usually w into people unless i know i can get kill to w out. sure i can snow ball with it but a lot less than a kat can. actually takes a moment to shoot a few auto attacks kat can just spam keys. maybe increase the cooldown on sinister steel but give her movement speed for a bit longer like 1.5 seconds. that ways its more an escape mechanism...