katarina's rework
(even though she's not _that _ bad if your team is mainly point and click cc tanks, bulkier champs like leona supp, naut top, vi jungle, malzahar mid, etc., it still doesn't seem fair that you have to build an entire team just to counter her, especially in something like solo queue. also people say that you have to use cc but it's kind of hard if she gets ahead, since she will kill you so fast you don't have time to react)
so i heard that in kat's rework, riot is planning to keep her resets and stuff, because that's part of her and i agree that's a good decision. but i was just wondering what everyone thinks about her ulti/her playstyle as a teamfighting assassin.
it's unique that she does well in teamfights compared to most assassins because of her huge aoe damage, but it doesn't really feel right on her sometimes, especially because she's so mobile with resets on her shunpo. i'd rather play against zed, talon, fizz, leblanc, pretty much any assassin than kat. why? because for zed, talon, and fizz, you can punish them for csing and they are not completely resourceless. i know katarina has a bad laning phase but all she really needs to do is survive, and at 6 she becomes a huge threat where she will zone you/poke you done with q unless you're playing a champion that's good against her.
and then there's my second thought, relating to why i'd rather play against any other assassin than katarina - because champions like leblanc, fizz, talon, and zed will not kill your entire team unless they are very, very fed. as a person who mains support and mid, it feels both impossible to peel katarina off someone and also stop her from getting kills. let's face it, mids don't always go 0/4, a lot of the time one midlaner will be 4/5 and the other will be 3/1 or something. and it's hard to peel someone off of your team, even with a nautilus ult, because her mobility lets her kill at least 2 people by the time it reaches her, if she played it right. it's so much easier to peel any other assassin, even someone like rengar if you have pinks.
it would be really neat to see katarina have a longer channel time on her ult, (i had a friend who didn't even know her ult had a channel time until now), make shunpo a dash, make q a skillshot/ have less bounces, make her less of a 'one good teamfight will result in a pentakill' champion. even from behind, katarina is a pretty big threat if your team is mostly squishy, and i know riot doesn't like champions being completely 'feast or famine', there should be more risk to playing kat. if you lose lane as kat, it's much easier to think 'i could make up for it in a teamfight' than if you were playing say zed or leblanc. i actually feel like we instantly have a disadvantage in teamfights, even if i'm playing a good mid teamfighter like orianna or karma, just because katarina will pop our support (if they're squishy), pop our adc or me with the resets, then have her team clean up after her if she isn't the one cleaning up the fights. if her team cant straight up win a teamfight for some reason, her q + ludens proc does so much poke damage, and it's just annoying to deal with. similar abilities like fiddle e dont do as much in sieges.
i dont want this to be seen as a a 'qq kat is broken' post, i was just wondering what everyone else thought about her current state and upcoming rework, and if they had any ideas on how to make her feel better to play against without having to absolutely counterpick her. thanks for taking the time to read this!