Nerf to Katarina E

DarthFantasia·Apr 8, 2017·3 votes·846 views

Although I think Kat was a little to strong before, I think that nerfing her E cooldown was a terrible idea. Her E is the main part of her kit, and nerfing that was detrimental to the champion. Early game now it is impossible to not get outtraded when you go in with your combo. Instead of nerfing her shunpo, you should have nerfed her damage a little. That would have lessened her strengths and wouldn't have annihilated her early game.

PS- you nerfed LeBlanc's dash cooldown and that made her complete garbage. I wonder what nerfing Kat's shunpo cooldown is gonna do.

7 Comments

FacerollKatarinaApr 8, 20172 votes

I actually don't mind the nerfs at all, I think they targeted the right thing, delaying her all in early game, and I don't even think they're that bad.

DarthFantasiaApr 8, 20171 votes

Assassins are supposed to get ahead early because they aren't good late, especially not Kat. If they wanted to delay her early game, they should have nerfed her damage instead of the main part of her kit.

FacerollKatarinaApr 8, 20171 votes

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Assassins are supposed to get ahead early because they aren't good late, especially not Kat. If they wanted to delay her early game, they should have nerfed her damage instead of the main part of her kit.

They nerfed her shunpo reset by 1 second... it really isnt a big deal

YoungReignApr 9, 20172 votes

Its not a big deal if you're a ranged champ.. the problem is for 1 whole more second you are face to face with a champ.. 0 time to read and dodge skill shots and and other assassin will just annihilate you for that 1 extra second. it was before that you could sometimes get it off fast enough (if you were good enough) to dodge the reaction cc skill shot of the other player. Now you just eat it most of the time.. Then get punished.. Lux I think she needed a little more time early but they added too much. and it went from risk early game to a very high risk early game. The whole point is to either get ahead or struggle the rest of the game.. Now its just so much harder to really get ahead.

DarthFantasiaApr 12, 20171 votes

Agreed, although it is closer to 3 extra seconds. I feel like they could have also nerfed her passive damage early game or something of the sort.

DarthFantasiaApr 12, 20171 votes

1 second? They nerfed her shunpo reset by 3 seconds early game. 14 x .78 = 10.92 seconds. 10 x .78 = 7.8 seconds. And 1 second isn't a big deal? Lets look at Leblanc. You have to wait to proc her passive and you have to wait to reuse W. That ruined LB's kit so much that she has the third lowest win rate right now. So, yes. even 1 or 2 seconds is a huge deal.

DarthFantasiaApr 12, 20171 votes

I'm assuming that the percent that her E cooldown resets hasn't changed since the assassin update. On Kat's champion page it just says 0%, which obviously isn't correct.