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Revert Katarina, just like LB and Rengar were reverted!

Mystic Cold·4/14/2018, 6:47:53 AM·4 votes·2,016 views

Katarina used to be fast, fun, and super smooth. Now she is super clunky, forces you to buy the same items without options, has no damage unless people are standing in her daggers, and overall feels super clunky and slow with all of her delays.

Rengar and LB were reversed and made them faster again. Made their burst more like an assassin should feel. It should be no different for Katarina. To be able to have her fast rotations, to use her passive as it was meant to be used. And to be honest, it would fix many issues that a lot of adc players, or other players that prefer squishy champions, have when playing against Katarina... her E always being out of cooldown.

Her mobility comes free, from her daggers. Before, she had to actually use her kit, including her passive, to be able to get her E again. She had to work for it. Now she is given those jumps for free, but even with high mobility, if people know how to play against it, you can't deal damage. Because they simply click to the right of left to avoid all your damage. Pre-rework, Katarina had very clear counter-play, but also gave a sense of danger if you misused your CC abilities on a front-line tank. Now she is countered by simply clicking slightly to your side, even when she catches you alone. This new Katarina is super un-fun, super slow, feels clunky, dagger mechanics and E delay feels aweful, ect.

Please Riot, listen to us for once, and let us play the champion that we Kat mains (and even those that did not main Kat, but liked playing her), loved and miss so much!

13 Comments

IP Masquerena4/14/2018, 7:38:31 AM3 votes

Reverting Rengar was a good decision, because he needed it, reverting LeBlanc was the one of the stupid decisions made lately, but hey, if Riot thinks "pressing 2 buttons is too hard", there's nothing we can do.

You said they listened with LeBlanc? I don't now what you're smoking, but I want some as well. Do you know how many players asked to keep her current live R, or at least the illusions on it? More than the number of players asking for a full revert, but do you see her having the R illusions on PBE? Me neither. So how does that equal to listening?

If that equals to "they listened to part of the community", well, bad luck for you, because that was always the case, no matter what they did, it was something certain groups of players wanted, so they always listened to parts of the community, to put it like that.

Kat isn't in a bad spot, she's more mechanically intensive than she was before, just like LeBlanc is now than what she was before, but you, just like the LeBlanc crybabies, don't like to press too many buttons, you want to have everything for as little effort as possible.

You say that reverting LeBlanc was the best decision? Let's wait till we see all the "Nerf LeBlanc" threads because she instagibs too much.

People say they want "skill expression", but when Riot gives them the opportunity, they want it removed because "it's too hard to press 2 buttons"

speciALpulsionxX5/6/2018, 8:00:01 PM2 votes

Revers kata riot pls

Lotus mortal5/29/2018, 5:00:20 PM1 votes

She gets revert ??

Gabresol5/29/2018, 5:32:14 PM1 votes

I think looking at Kata's winrate through out the elos what is the actual problem. The old Kata's winrate dropped around 10% from bronze (with always over 50%) to diamond (mostly in the middle 40%). The new Kata is a mirror image of this. Her bronze WR is slightly negative, while her Diamond WR is getting close at 54%. She is the 6th most succesful champion in Diammond+

Ol' Kata was good in low elo was strong becuase low elo players failed to use Kata' counter. Her being dead, because that is what kata was the moment she got stunned or rooted. Once she went in and did not kill a target she had no jump, no movementspeed or anything to get out. That is also why she was so bad in high elo.

Now, with her daggers, she has the mobility to escape from sticky situations and move around cc, which makes her now good in high elo, but bad in low elo since, let's face it, having to keep track of your own abilties seems to be a little to diffecult down here for some individuums.

Also. Rengar wasn't entirely reveted. Only his Q was.

Lotus mortal6/21/2018, 8:25:45 PM1 votes

I miss old kat

B00G3YMÀN12/27/2018, 1:06:07 PM1 votes

wow what a revert only mises his passive the not gone over time passive the bontooth 20 passive the hunt passive the w armor and mr and heals but further such a fucking bad job riot good shit