what is the counterplay to bouncing blade

Not standing next to minions.

Come on guy.

Ranged harass falls under the "stand behind minions" or "don't stand behind minions" variety. With things like Nid spears, Ashe volleys, or Rocket Grabs, you want to stand behind minions so they'll body - block an otherwise pretty powerful skill. With ranged harass like Lux's singularity, Brand's pillar of flame, and Katarina's Blades - you force your opponent to get a good CS score or harass you, you don't give them both.

Also - this notion that counter-play means dealing with something with reflexes alone bothers me. DotA was made from all the elements of an RTS game, Warcraft 3, thrown into a blender. It's a pretty solid mix of reflexive, tactical, and strategic play styles - and it's the predecessor of LoL. Not every problem has an immediate and instantaneous counter answer. A lot of things assume a certain level of planning and foresight in LoL.

Dude you can't look at everything that isn't a skillshot and say it doesn't have counterplay

Grow a brain already

What do you get when a dragon sneezes?

During laning? Stand away from your minions.

Really, that thing has such a short bouncing range (at least per individual bounce). Staying a distance from your minions means the enemy Katarina is either going to have to get into melee range to farm if she pokes you, or she won't poke you at all as the blades can't reach you.

What the counterplay on Fiddlesticks' E or Teemo's Q? Or Karthus' R?

At least you can kite her when you see her running in to do it. She has to be pretty close unless she can bounce it onto you from a minion.

Counter play don't get hit by the first hit of the bounce, if she throws it it's down for 10s and the first hit hurts the most. Trade her if she tries to throw it on you. She will lose all trades until around level 6. Her base values are low and if she ever goes in pre-4 she will more than likely lose the trade because she can at most do 275 damage with a full rotation on you.

You hit her for 300-400 she hits you for 275 if she gets some AAs off. Then you AA while she runs and you just won the trade by 150+ damage. Just don't try to engage on her unless she is CC'd other wise she will shunpo away.

Most Kata's start Tome and a pot like me. Meaning she now has to burn a pot to get herself to 3/4 hp and now has to use her abysmal hp/5 to heal. Force her trades from there on and you win.

Not standing inside of your minion wave? Not letting Kat get the follow up damage from the mark? Punishing Kat for getting within range of your abilities if she tries to target you directly? Laughing off the honestly pitiful damage it deals?

wait until she is oo..- No

what is counterplay to ryze afk

Start flask and pots and try to zone her away from creeps with your abilities. If she can't farm up close she has two choices 1) farm with bouncing blades or 2) harass you with bouncing blades. If she does the latter, use the flask and pots, out cs her, and back once you're low with more gold than she has. If she does the former, then the bouncing blade harass is pretty negligible since the damage drops for each successive target it hits. Her bouncing blades cooldown is also pretty high at early levels and once she uses it she doesn't have much left in the way of damage. You should be able to reply with at least as much damage before it's back up. I think some people get trapped in the mentality of "oh no oh no that blade is going to hit me backupbackupbackup SHIT it hit me... and she's too far away for me to retaliate, waaahhhh op rito pls"

Really kat is a pain in the ass like zed because champs which used to be able to shove her around are now really restricted due to mana regen. Combine that with the fact that most kats run ms quints and start boots + 4 pots and it's really hard to force her out before your mana runs out. That and the old tactic of "shove her under tower because she can't farm well there" doesn't work with ganking in season 5 being stronger.

I am glad that we get constructive posts like this. No wonder Riot listens.