Why does Akali have built in sustain but they are nerfing Kats?

DuBinNam·Apr 2, 2015·2 votes·966 views

Katarina literally can't beat anyone in lane now, there is not a single champion she has an advantage over.

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Only Play DariusApr 2, 20154 votes

Akali has one of the worst laning phases in the game. Once they nerf Kat people are going to completely move on to zed.

Akali has an extremely weak early game for a "meh" late game.

Kat has a moderately weak early game for a nightmarish late game.

Meanwhile Zed gets to be a hyper-bully during the laning phase, and gets +%25 bonus AD to get him to scale nicely into late game. Them 700AD autos hurt, don't they?

ZephyrDrakeApr 2, 20151 votes

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Akali has one of the worst laning phases in the game. Once they nerf Kat people are going to completely move on to zed.

Akali has an extremely weak early game for a "meh" late game.

Kat has a moderately weak early game for a nightmarish late game.

Meanwhile Zed gets to be a hyper-bully during the laning phase, and gets +%25 bonus AD to get him to scale nicely into late game. Them 700AD autos hurt, don't they?

"meh" late game... i wish i had Akali's with "meh" late game

DedriusApr 2, 20153 votes

Kat's lategame isn't really that great tbh. Everyone has a good amount of health and some MR items and CD on CC is much lower making it very hard for Kat to get off a good ult and get a reset.

Kat and Akali are both great midgame and not the best late although kat may be a bit better.

Only Play DariusApr 3, 20151 votes

She may not be an assassin that thrives in late-game like Tryndamere Vayne Fiora but the fact that Katarina is a teamfight-oriented assassin means that she will naturally be much better late game than most other assassins.

BeatzBoyFTWApr 2, 20153 votes

Akali has already received her nerfs, so it's Kat's turn to get one too? So it's justifiable.

If you must ask, Akali's nerf was that her E won't proc her Q passive, so she feels pretty clunky to play now.

EDIT: In LCS, Katarina was picked against a LeBlanc (forgot which teams was that) and won, so Kat still deserves some nerfs.

DedriusApr 2, 20152 votes

Just because she beat an LB in LCS doesn't really mean she needs nerfs...

Kat vs Leblanc is pretty easy if you just poke with Q then shunpo her W and its pretty easy to see when its coming (right after she Q's)

WolfChasesApr 2, 20152 votes

Katarina is still a MONSTER if you compare her with Akali. I have laned against Ahri today as Kat and I was 0/2 because I wasnt carefull so I got ganked like moron...lol...Even if I had 0/2 and 30 minions less than Ahri I carried that game after I managed to get a single damn kill. My End score was something like 16/7/X, you can check it, it was something like that.

-Katarina's laning phase is better than Akali's

-Katarinas Laning phase is safer than Akali's

-Karatina's escape is more reliable than Akali's

-Katarina deals AOE damage and has better resset while Akali deals single target and has worst resset than Kata. Akali's E doesn't count as DAMAGE (LOL) since i doesn't procs Q anymore.

-And at the end, Kata's teamfight potential is MUCH MUCH better than Akali's.