Poor Katarina

EvilRabbitt·Jun 10, 2015·3 votes·920 views

Never again will she see a buff. =/ R.I.P.

Nuke passive, nerf health regen, nuke shunpo. Next thing is what?

14 Comments

Critmaster GarenJun 10, 20153 votes

nerfing kat is honestly silly. its liek the garen nerf mid season 3, because he was stomping bronze and silver too hard. i could have understood if they just had shifted power around a little bit without directly nerfing her.

she is probably one of the easiest champions to deal with in the game. especially since she has to get into melee range to actually trade. and all she can do after she blew her base ability chain, is to run away with her only real escape on a 14 second cooldown (at least early on). thats usually when you just dump on her.

whenever she used shunpo, you can literally just go and auto attack her for 14 seconds, even as a mage.

her ult is easy to deal with aswell. i dont understand what the problem is supposed to be with the champion. yea, shes manaless, but its not like she has inbuilt sustain. eveything you do to her sticks. and she has to repeatedly get into melee range to trade with you. her counterplay is painfully obvious.

EvilRabbittJun 10, 20151 votes

I don't know either. But, all pubstompers get nerfed so hard. =/

SauvagessJun 10, 20152 votes

Yeah, I don't...I don't see a problem with the Shunpo nerf. Like, why would you even care about shunpo base damage? It could literally be 0 at all 5 ranks and she could still 1v5 penta.

EvilRabbittJun 10, 20151 votes

Rank 0. So...you could penta...with no way to get to your enemies short of run spam?

EvilRabbittJun 10, 20152 votes

Am I the only one who sees free money when theirs an enemy katarina? Like, I legitimately see a walking money bag begging to be beatsticked. =/ Hence my rip. I know she is strong, but...ye. I'm predicting her to be the next Evelynn at this rate. One season, 3+ nerf patches. Same thing with Elise. My lord, the Deja-vu is strong.

Edit: Why the downvotes? What the apple sauce?

KãtãrinãJun 10, 20151 votes

Shunpo really wasn't used for damage so...

GroundRuleDoubleJun 10, 20151 votes

It wasn't used for damage, but it definitely helped the level 3 harass/eventual all-in. All this will do is slow that down so Kats just need to farm until level 6 instead of trying to get that early kill.

KãtãrinãJun 10, 20151 votes

You rarley shunpoed directly onto the enemy, (i'm a kat main) you usually shunpoed to a minion and Wed to get the speed buff and get out b4 any retaliation usually.

GroundRuleDoubleJun 10, 20151 votes

I'm a Kat main as well. I harass starting at 3 (assuming I know where their jungler is or know he won't gank) by Q'ing, then E-ing onto the enemy, W for damage and speed, then run away. It was too much of a waste to jump to a minion. You lose out on dealing a lot of damage. Plus, starting boots + pots, you have plenty of pots to heal yourself if they hit you once or twice in that. Usually those are VERY favorable trades (also because you're manaless and they are probably not).

KãtãrinãJun 10, 20151 votes

You "might" be a kat main but do you not see the drastic skill difference? If you E directly on them 9-10 you can be either creep blocked, they get a free auto, sometiems get in tower range on accident, ETC. Jumping to a minion is far from a waste since that damage, even pre nerf, wasn't to much.

tl;dr My skill on kat is much greater (not only by mastery but rank) but i'm not disagreeing with your antics of using it on an enemy. But the nerf will do little to nothing to her honestly since it wasn't used much for damage anyway for a more seasoned kat player. Yes every now and then id jump directly on them like when i go to ult or sometimes if they are shoved up and sued there cooldowns but the damage wasn't much at all.

itsCHANCEyoJun 10, 20151 votes

permabanned the entire length of hexakill... clearly she needs no buffs. ever. again.

;P sorry not sorry

Critmaster GarenJun 10, 20151 votes

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permabanned the entire length of hexakill... clearly she needs no buffs. ever. again.

;P sorry not sorry

because this game is balanced around hexakill...

they do have the technology to balance champions individually for each map. so they can just do that, if shes too strong in that mode.

imo they should have just shifted the damage to her w. its the one ability in her kit (except for her ult), that requires her to really put herself close to her opponent. i dont understand why most of her damage isnt in that skill.

move the movement speed bonus to her mark. so she gets it when she triggers the mark with w, and move more damage to the w itself to make it harder to just hang back and poke with q.

KãtãrinãJun 10, 20151 votes

She wasn't permabanned but when i got her in my hands even the enemy kat would be sad. I never lsot with her and the enemy kat always was negative kda to my 20+ kills or so.