Remember when katarina's was only viable if she snowballed?
Well she is certainly viable in every circumstance now! My complaint is her passive. It is completely overloaded. Her passive is now something that is worth 3 separate abilities.
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Reduce ability CD by 15 seconds on kill or assist, got it, that is what she used to do.
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Deal significant AOE damage when stepping over a dagger. Okay I got that too, she now uses her daggers placed by other abilities for mobility and additional damage.
3)When getting a dagger she now also virtually refreshes the cooldown of her mobility. This is overboard. Mobility should have a price, and she pays none here. In fact she gets bonuses for being more mobile! There should not be a champion who gains damage based off of how mobile they are. Yasuo is a perfect example of this.
WAIT WAIT WAIT, YOU CAN CC AND KILL HER ITS SO EASY. Sure, if you can actually land your cc. If you have a targeted stun or some way to lock her down, good, you have the same generic ability to counter any other mid lane champion. This is not a meaningful means of counterplay.
Here are your semi viable options in lane, you stay passive and farm, build MR early. You will probably die in any 1v1 senario but it will take her slightly longer than usual to kill you, allowing time for allies to arrive.
You go aggressive level 1 and manage to kill her before she reaches level 3, due to summoner spells and exp ranges, this is not likely.
You manage to clear the lane before she jumps onto you. This means you are most likely building damage and in turn will be more vulnerable.
My proposed nerf would be reduce the duration of daggers from 4 to 3, and have picking up a dagger reduce shunpo's CD according to shunpo's level. Going from 60/65/70/75/80%
