Kat Needs Energy Now

Other than Yi, Morde and Nid, some CC. Yi & Morde both have defensive abilities that let them soak damage (which is often more useful than avoiding it--since it often would hit someone else). Nid obviously brings her obnoxious poke spam.

Trynda has one of the most tilting splitpushes in the game Fiora is insane everywhere fantastic tank buster target selecter Garen is there for begginers Evelyn compared to katarina UM I wonder what sets eve apart, I just cant seem to find it Graves is ranged? Has the most tilting ability called smokescreen Nidalee can clear 5 jungles in the same time while providing poke anti poke and scouting Mordekaiser is irelevant... (Sorry malicious metal) needs another rework Shyvana can clear 5 junglers in the same time and become ball of stats Talon is AD but yeah there basicly is no reason to pick talon over katarina (YAY YOU got 1 right) Urgot is anti assassin with great poke durability and he is ranged Vladimir has sustain and his pool over katarina who atm is somewhat escape less (No ward hops) Ziggs has nothing to offer compared to some mages but compared to katarina he has ... global presence range poke

Tyrn and fiora are actual threats when they split, because they do it fast, and you cannot just send a specific person to stop the split. kat is slower, they could just send the top laner or jungler with skirmisher sabre, and they would kill her if kat tried to split.

garen has a silence, is a tank, now shreds armor with his e, and black cleaver applies to the adc.

Eve is a jungler lol kat doesnt have invisible ganks. Graves , shyv, and yi can take towers, they're junglers. The comparison is odd. Like apples to oranges. Nid is good at seiging, has a heal, traps for wards, good objective control. I can't really compare what they bring other than the fact they have their own advantages to other junglers. Yi gets objectives faster, like drag or baron. Kat doesnt do much dmg to them. Yi is probably the closest because he doesn't bring much. Most of these picks have the option to do dmg to the frontline in a teamfight, where kat needs to get the back.

Mord is off tank. But he also does aoe damage. Its good if they focus mord, it isnt good if they focus kat. He probably pushes fast with his q if that even works with towers ;p

Talon is single target, and roams faster/better, like eve.
Urgot has his ult, and he shreds armor. Ziggs is a mage. He pokes and stays safe. he doesnt have to commit.

I could make tank on kat, but it isn't effective unless you're considerably ahead or if they're all ad or something. I'd rather have 2/0/2 tank shyv with like titanic and shit than a kat with it.

Literally all kat is looking for is to kill people with mobility, like other assassins. Most of these other picks also aren't hard countered by exhaust or skirmisher sabre.

While what does kat bring that is different from these champs. Mobiliy, damage, flanking, teamfighting, skirmishes, picks, ap for other ap on the team with ? Usually the only ap, besides the support. This kat is weaker in teamfights with resets, potentially stronger without. Reliably bursting someone is very important, and she cannot do it as reliably anymore.

At the cost of seiging, poke, safe waveclear, and objective control. The negatives are pretty strong, but the positives are strong in solo queue.

Kat can cause the opponents to save CC, where they eventually just dont use it or miss it. Wasting their time/cds

Zed is nothing like kat. The comparison is terrible.

Old kat just ward hopped to tower when you threw something and the gank was done. Nothing happens.

New kat can only shunpo to minions. Her q dagger doesn't help. Her W is where she is. Only way she can run without minions is into the enemy tower lol or jungle. Her W is maxed 3rd, and it gives movement speed for 1 second. Thats like comparing irelia to ezreal in the midlane. I'd rather gank irelia if they had the same stats.

Not even a debate, old kat is harder to gank.

To live the lvl 2/3 cheese, you just have to stay out of shunpo range, or dodge the W dagger that takes 1.5 seconds, and the Q dagger that lands behind where it hit you. I don't have a problem with it when I'm against her. Also, you could poke her lvl 1 where she weak, have a big wave to prevent the cheese, push her undertower lvl 1. She has ton of counterplay until you feed her.

In my opinion, with 500k on kat while just being a petty plat player, the added mobility doesnt make a difference. Old kat just 1 shot you in .1 seconds if you were 70% health or less, if not you aren't running away from ludens and rylais lol.

Only reason she seems op now is because she isn't gated by her poor laning phase. She's winning her lane rather than roaming. So the thought process goes from it seeming like she got fed off of bot to she got fed cause she is op and beat the enemy midlaner.

I don't think she is overpowered, but she can be obnoxious to play against as a squishy. She litterally has no escape from a bruiser that plays it well. Hec will run her down, shyv will run her down, tryn will run her down. Her weaknesses that I mentioned earlier are big enough in competitive play, that she won't be played much (if at all). She was played by maple, but her weaknesses in mid/late were really highlighted that match.

Solo queue she can carry, because its different. People don't know how to not feed, and she snowballs hard.