@Riot Any plans for Katarina?

Elisai·8/19/2015, 3:02:15 PM·3 votes·464 views

Let's be real here. If you've played Katarina here recently then you've discovered that she actually has become "Tolerable". And she's only useful when she snowballs in lane. Which with the change to her E's ratio made that actually somewhat difficult to do. But one thing that Riot does to champions when they're going to make a small change to them is leave them in a weak state until they know what to do with them. This example is most noticeable on Ryze currently. And they said they were going to make changes to him in the future so don't worry. Back to Katarina... Being a feast or famine champion is unhealthy... So what sort of things are you planning for her? If you can share the details of course.

7 Comments

Shroom Junkie8/19/2015, 3:12:03 PM4 votes

Katarina is a feast or famine champion. To nerf her would be to make her near-useless, to buff her would be to make her into that pentakill machine we always see when she's fed, only all the time.

Not Katarina8/19/2015, 3:52:10 PM4 votes

For Katarina to be viable without being near broken, some aspects of her kit would have to be interchanged for power in other places.

As it stands currently, she snowballs extremely hard or starves. This is unhealthy. But Riot can NOT buff her numbers flat out. And I say this as someone who absolutely loves Katarina. The threat of her passive (Voracity) is very prominent and teamfights and will always draw attention. It is a really strong ability. Because of this, she will need a lot more attention than just adjusting some numbers on her kit.

It's really hard to say what they can do with Katarina to make her less reliant on her ultimate, without taking her core identity away that lies in her kit. (Mainly shunpo or bb and voracity).. Still, it'd be really cool to experiment on her.. I'd really like some more mechanical skill and less decision making in her kit (i.e what separates good Katarina players from bad ones is when they R into a teamfight and/or survive her cruddy laning phase, not much outplay potential save for dodging things on E), but that's just me personally. Eeee, it scares me when I think about Katarina changes. :[ I love her so much.

Serevas8/19/2015, 3:16:37 PM1 votes

I'd have to say that she should remains precisely the way that she is right now. She's strong if you snowball, if you don't she's not, that's perfectly fine for a champion whose abilities reset on kills.