Yet another nerf to Katarina

Womanixer··3 votes·656 views

Nerfing her passive. As if Katarina needed to be in any worse shape than she already was. First you remove Deathfire Grasp and limit her bust potential. Katarina has one of the worst laning phases in game and her roaming was what made her useful. Deathfire allowed her to secure kills for other lanes and keep snowballing, but you removed the item that works in great synergy with her because of a few whiners.

Next you nerf her ult. Her ult which can be easily interrupted by stunning her, or silencing her, knocking her up (giggity), knocking her back, suppressing her, or hell even walking out of range. You can easily counterpick to make her useless in lane. But nope. You just desperately had to nerf her ultimate. Okay.

Now that Katarina has no burst potential late game, a terrible laning phase, an ult that is easily avoidable, you have to remove the one thing that made Katarina, well, Katarina. Her passive is now destroyed and gone are the days where she was useful.

Katarina was only ever useful in lower elos against opponents who had no idea what they were doing. In gold 5 people started to save interrupts for me and cc me to death immediately. But you had to nerf her into the ground cause a few baddies complained about how she was "op" and all that. Top kek m8.

7 Comments

Solidair33 votes

oh I get it, this is one of those ironic joke threads

InSingedWeTrust2 votes

Katarina has been wrecking my games in Plat. She's in a great spot right now, and that passive nerf HARDLY makes a difference. Chill out and adapt (to a very insignificant nerf).

excodar2 votes

I don't get how she had a terrible laning phase, she had no mana costs and a farming/poke tool on a 9 second cooldown.

Juggernaut6282 votes

The new passive might as well not be changed as generally Katarina just dives into a 1v5 and walks away with a penta in less than 3 seconds. GOOOO BALANCE!

kcStranger2 votes

Yeah...Katarina had the highest overall win rate in solo queue prior to the nerf (which basically just makes her somewhat less snowbally), and even in Diamond her win rate hovers around 55%. It's true that the nerf isn't going to help her chances of being seen in pro play, but Katarina is basically the definition of a champion that would be too good for solo queue if they made her viable in competitive team play.

Womanixer1 votes

Forgot.

RIP in peace Katarina.

hgjkdlsaf jeldvb1 votes

Kat needed it. 54.89% win rate and 13.67% play rate are not the stats of a champ that is 'in bad shape'

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