Questions about Katarina

Bent Pixels·1/6/2020, 2:38:04 PM·1 votes·2,520 views

Is Katarina more viable when rushing Sorcery Boots or should I go straight into Gunblade as soon as possible?
What rune is best on her? I personally like having Electrocute for the early game damage, but I hear that Conqueror is better on her right now. Also, dark harvest is still an option due to the quick resets.
With Season 10 approaching, is Katarina a solid hard carry champ that can help me climb? Last season I had a 56% winrate and she got me from Silver to Gold, so can I expect something similar again?

Thanks in advance for your help!

3 Comments

Glory971/6/2020, 3:29:33 PM3 votes

Rushing gunblade is better most of the time, cause it gives a really powerful 1-item powerspike, which can allow you to really start snowballing. Going sorcery boot still good in some situations: for example -if you know can't do anything in midlane, cause you are in a super bad matchup and you're looking to get some kills from roaming early.
I think conqueror is better overall, even though it's not that good in lane it's just super amazing in teamfights. But if you're confident you can get very fed in the early laning phase and snowball from there, take dark harvest or electrocute.
Kata is always a decent choice for soloqueue climbing. But right now it's kind of difficult, because the best meta champs for mid: kassadin, diana, fizz and cassio are all extremly good counters for kata. We can only hope riots nerfs some of these champs.

GnarDominator1/6/2020, 2:44:37 PM1 votes

Katarina`s just broken so she can be played anywhere with success

conq seems to be the better teamfight/ tankier comps rune while elctrocute has a bit better laning and squishy team assasination potential

Im not really a kat main(I have kat mains as friends and played her a little bit myself) but from what im seeing she is S/S+ tier at every rank and pretty much immune to nerfs so once kassadin and diana get fixed she will get even better