Katarina's AD ratios.

Haze97·5/16/2019, 1:01:19 AM·1 votes·1,103 views

So I was looking at Katarina's AD and AP ratios and I wanna know whether I have it right.

Her passive, E, and ultimate, all seem to scale harder off AD than AP. The only ability which scales harder off AP is her Q which doesn't use the least bit of AD.

Is this correct?

I'm planning on running a more hybrid version of Katarina with Conq and need to get this straight.

3 Comments

Literal IRL Tree5/16/2019, 1:32:56 AM2 votes

You have to realize you can on average get 400+ more ap than you can ad

fire2635/16/2019, 1:44:38 AM2 votes

Well, conqueror is a pretty viable keystone already on katarina, since she can stack is relatively quickly and benefits a lot from healing/bonus damage.

As for AD>AP, I would still prefer to stick with AP, as although her AD ratios on average are higher than her AP, there's a couple of reasons that make AP better.

All her AD scalings minus shunpo scales off of bonus AD, meaning base AD is not calculated
You can get much more AP than you can AD
Her daggers (which is her primary damage source) will eventually scale to 100% ap ratio, which is one of the best ratios in the game and is the same ratio as the Bonus AD scaling on her daggers, But you get more AP than you do AD meaning late game AP does much more damage.
Her Q does not scale off of AD, and is kinda necessary for your Q to do damage in order to survive laning phase as it's your primary poke and way to get CS
She doesn't synergize with many AD items as crit would be pointless, lethality is also quite pointless considering all her abilities do magic damage, last whisper and black cleaver are pretty useless as well as again, she does magic damage, and the only viable options for AD items on Katarina would be something like Death's Dance, or going a bit bruiserish and getting Steraks and such.

Overall, hybrid Katarina might sound good, but AP is just generally better and if you're planning on playing this in ranked I would stick with AP builds. However, there are some fun builds that can be tried going AD, perhaps a bruiser Katarina build.