Katarina isn't the problem

OwlMechanic·5/25/2015, 10:16:03 PM·1 votes·654 views

I see thread after thread about Katerina damage/op and feel it in plenty of games surely but what everyone seems to ignore is that the only thing that threw her over the top is her synergy with ludens Echo.

It adds aoe to her aoe speeding her clear Nearly doubles the damage of her dagger Gives ms Procs constantly thanks to her teleport And has no penalty associated with mana as it would other champs, and no penalty for not getting random (because her ratios were never really amazing outside of a vacuum.

Once we add its proccing enormously if resets come in the damage far surpasses anything the dfg used to add because it affects multiple targets multiple times in short succession.

That same tiny additional damage means she almost never has to rely on aa's to finish minion waves, nor does she need to dive in to get the mark damage proc because the damage of dagger alone is no longer neglible.

-- really I don't see a good solution to this particular synergy but it was bound to bring certain champs over the edge exactly as it has. Another angle needs to be found than nerf Kats ratios again, they aren't the prob.

3 Comments

Voluug135/26/2015, 12:32:03 AM2 votes

Kata has always been an outlier.

That Luden's is making such a change with Katarina, but not other champions, passes by the champion's side, not the Item's. Same with a lot of jungle items in the past.

Kinda like DFG. Only Ahri and Kata abused the crap out of it, and for Morde, Syndra and Veigar it was more or less mandatory.

Poptart Evelynn5/26/2015, 1:24:13 AM2 votes

Luden's didn't change anything on Kat. Dfg was 10x better on Kat. If anything It's pretty hard to get games where you can buy Luden's on Kat simply because she has much more needed items. Only time Kat can go Luden's is if she will win lane easily and roam.

What put Kat in popularity was the shift of nerfs/picks, that change and made Kat a favorable pick because she could actually lane decently with out her hard counters being meta. Kat actually does well vs most the current picks aside from Cho.

Kat will always be strong because the main thing that makes her powerful is her opponents inability and refusal to counter itemize. I really have no clue why people don't buy GA and BV against Kat. They feel the need to keep buying more damage items and think that Spirit visage is good against Kat.

Lugg5/26/2015, 1:14:38 AM1 votes

I'm sorry, but face it, Kat needs to be gutted and reworked. Once she gets her Echo, it's GG. I had a game today where we hard CC'd her for 4 seconds and she still killed everyone.