Another 'Kat is Broken' Thread

RetroRage96·Jun 6, 2015·3 votes·223 views

Seriously Riot, if your midlaner doesn't know what they're doing against Kat, its gg. You build MR, she builds Void Staff. You flash, she get's a free one right on top of you. You need the entire team to CC lock her down, only for her to respawn with more items. It's just not fun to play against, and it's gotten out of hand.

Another thing, why doesn't she use mana? She has glowing, spinning blades flying around her body, and has no resource at all. Pantheon is a stereotypical Greek soldier (or the Runeterra equivalent,) and he is a mana hungry champ. He has better reason than Katarina to use mana, and I think if she had mana, it could tone down her never-ending kill-pressure.

Thank you for reading.

4 Comments

JAGMAGJun 6, 20151 votes

Or change her passive that's what makes her dumb to play against

RetroRage96Jun 6, 20151 votes

Mana would also encourage her to play safer in lane and not be so constantly aggressive. Even if her target doesn't die, she has no reason to stop spamming, because there is no consequence.

JAGMAGJun 6, 20151 votes

Or if you have a recourseless champ just go with higher than average cool downs

s LessThanThreeJun 6, 20151 votes

Remove the passive procing on Assist - instead of the full cd, it only does 1/4 of the cd reduction, making it important for Kat to get the kill herself if she wants to get her teamfight combos off. That, and make her Shunpo CD even longer so that in order to jump around your team she not only needs to kill the first enemy she shunpos to, but also wait at least 2 seconds in order to Shunpo again.

This will remove her almost unpunishable tower dive presence as well as make her much easier to focus in teamfights - and reduce the ability to snowball a teamfight off of ONE single kill.

If Zed gets his ulti nerfed so he has to wait 1 second to escape out of a fight, why does Kat keep her free escape?

Another idea - nerf the initial Q damage and slightly buff the 2nd proc of Q damage - so the dmg is about the same, but this will decrease her lane poke as well as make her decide, does she want to put herself in danger to do more dmg? Or does she want to be safe but lose farm and get pushed to tower because of it.

This will make her laning phase weaker, which it should be - because as it is now, Kat's laning phase is very easy and forgiving.

TL;DR

Passive now only procs for 1/4 the CD reduction off of ASSISTS. Shunpo CD is higher.

Damage on Q part 1 lower, part 2 higher.

Scaling possibly reduced so that she doesn't snowball as hard off of items.

This WILL balance Katarina.