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DarthSpectrum7 votes

Katarina's passive is definitely unique to league. Whether it is positive or negative to gameplay would mostly be personal opinion. However, I believe that the general consensus is that Katarina isn't fun to lane against. Her combos are fairly predictable, but all her skills are instant; basically, she wins by pressing buttons faster than you can.

Compared to other assassins such as Zed or Yasuo, there is a huge disparity to the damage output and the effort needed to pull it off. (Kat being much less work)

She does trade off any means of escape when committing to a target, and people do argue that with proper teamwork you can CC her. However, the enemy team can also put a Black Shield or Chrono Shift on her as she goes in. The amount of damage she can do is absolutely absurd if left unattended.

I personally believe that she needs a slight nerf, or some sort of rework because of how easily Katarina dominates in games such as Hexakill or Acension where all that matters are teamfights.

Direwolfiez4 votes

She makes ARAM games unfun too. I've seen ONE Kat lose an ARAM game, and that was because they had no idea how to play her. Even when I had hard CC I couldn't stop Kat (different Kat than the one I was previously talking about); I was playing TF, had a yellow card up as a deterrent (I had 1/3 hp), she Shunpo'd to me and melted me in less than a second, and this was all under my turret. I was also fed, and she'd been repeatedly shut down by me, thanks to my Yellow Cards, yet she snowballed really hard during a teamfight and basically won the game for her team. Counterplay? Yeah, maybe in SR. In teamfight oriented maps she is unbelievably strong, yet her spells deal the same damage on every map.

DarthSpectrum4 votes

Mostly because that her Q, E, W damage are instant at close range. Katarina's counter play is CC; I once saw a video comparison of Katarina's QWE combo to other assassin's rotation, not one even came close in terms of DPS(within 100 dmg range), even though in some of the tests the ultimates were used as well.

Don't bother trying to out trade her without some equally broken defensive cool downs, just cross your fingers, aim your stun shot, and hope it hits before she Es to you.

Rew7111 votes

The only counters I'd use are Swain and Malzahar.

Raja Chachki4 votes

Make ult cd a little longer, make passive give 10 sec reductions, BAM she's fixed. Those seem to be my only issues when playing against Kat, her super low spmmable cool downs.

UncensoredAngel2 votes

she would still have her shunpo and spin up...not fixed

Direwolfiez2 votes

I think all of her other skills need longer cooldowns, especially if her passive stays the same. 15 seconds is just ridiculous to have reset.

Hayaishi4 votes

Look at how much time they had to CC her!

UncensoredAngel3 votes

XD funny

Core of Soul4 votes

katarina is quite ridiculous. I've had teams where each champ selected was meant to hard CC katarina, but her dmg is so instant that it sometimes doesn't help. plz nerf.

Lao Fu the Tiger4 votes

Everybody is seeming to skip over the fact that, yes, she is powerful, but only while her ultimate is up. Which, admittedly, is very often. However, when it comes to a teamfight scenario, her other three basic abilities scale pretty poorly and don't do enough damage to warrant her jumping into a fight. So yes, she's powerful, but without her ult, she's fairly useless unless she's cleaning up the few 200HP people left over.

Rew7113 votes

Her ult can be insane. Its spammed.

Direwolfiez2 votes

It's spammed because of her passive. 15 sec reset per kill or assist, and her ult has a 60 / 52.5 / 45 sec cooldown, and that's without any CDR.

SuperSaiyanAsh3 votes

Another thing they could do to nerf her a little bit is give her a charge time on ult, make it so it has to charge for .5 seconds or maybe even less, just to give people a little time to cc or run, depending on how a team fight is going.

Direwolfiez2 votes

She used to have a .25 sec cast time on her ult, but Riot threw it out the window in patch 3.12.

Boulderox3 votes

She needs to finally meet the ban hammer, after all this time. Assassins are slowly fading out to the sub legendary assassins. It is not ok how instant all her abilities, lots of players equate Katerina's skill @ 6 is e, mash everry key as fast as possible and then shumpo further or retreat. She can decimate teams without trying. Her burst is so instant it can't be countered until your dead.

UncensoredAngel3 votes

I cant play her don't want to know "OP easy champs aren't fun" and she needs a ban

Crimson5pheonix3 votes

Git Gud Scrub

Direwolfiez2 votes

lol You can tell that a Kat main was here when every post in the entire thread is -1 from where it used to be.

Naelarstrasz2 votes

Lawl. 4v3 and we see "nerf kat"

Seriphym1 votes

Out of all the Kat videos that's the best you come up with to support your point?

Sounds like senseless "I forgot to keep situational awareness and got pwnd" QQ to me.

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