Death Lotus PBE change
Katarina Death Lotus (R) cooldown changed from 90/60/45 to 135/75/15
What have I just read?
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I suspect their data shows Kat is over-performing early and struggling late if she fails to snowball, so they're stripping some early power to prevent snowballing while empowering her late-night teamfight.
Uhh...while that severely hurts her early, her late just became really really dumb.
15 second cooldown plus her passive's CDR? what the ACTUAL hell Riot.
[slayer-jinx-unamused]
I don't want to judge this early but this looks really bad.
If I waste my cc on her, interrupting her ult and we don't have to power to kill her quickly and one of my teammate die, she will be able to ult again while my cc is on cd.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
Ayyy, more spinny spin resets.
Honestly I'd prefer if they shortened the channel window on her ultimate based on CDR or something. It might make her a bit less fluid in item builds, but at least then her late game wouldn't be terrible. The channel time feels absolutely horrid because of how easily you can be broken out of it and the damage per second is negligible when late game hits, most of what you're gonna get damage out of is your daggers. It can feel so bad when all your cooldowns are up in a teamfight and the only thing you have at your disposal is your ultimate vs the tanks and people with Maw/EoK and you can just feel like it's about to be over for you because your ult just isn't powerful enough in the amount of time you need it to be.
Riot goes 0 to 100 real quick
to be fair if she fails to snowball, getting the R cd reset for a kill means nothing if she cant even get one late game, it just reduces the chances of getting out of control early while giving her a bit of a breeding room if she ever get to level 16
I'm kind of excited to try this...Is it bad that I'm excited to try this?
There are 2 ways to look at this
The first is that Kat is screwed if she messes up an ult early game for the next 2 minutes.
The other is that in the rare games where late game actually happens she can mess up all the time and still be a threat right after.
Is this an attempt to make death lotus the same cd as lux's ult in late game? Are you encouraging games to end before ket gets to lvl 16??? What is your goal riot???
Its as nerf. Her early game is one of her strong points and now she cant continuously kill you every time she returns to lane. yes no no cd on her ult late game is good when she gets a kill but not worth in my opinion. the nerf to her early game is hard
It's like we are playing urf lmao, but at least her laning phase is weaker
Wow riot, I love getting pooped on by kat. -.- at least I got a rediculous lux buff to deal with the rediculous kat buff.
the future is now
I read an April Fool's joke, and I hope it god it actually is one.
It's a basic ability at level 16. Lmfao. By this standard, Kat shouldn't receive the CDR URF buff at all. It doesn't matter anymore lul.
sounds like a good balance to me.