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Katarina's Nerf

TheTombstone·6/14/2015, 7:21:26 PM·2 votes·1,885 views

First off, her e is crucial in getting the kill, why the hell nerf it? It is meant to chain together all the kills for the penta. So, I just played a game with her versus an Ekko and a Yasuo.**WOW You will nerf Kat's E but you'll leave them as gamebreaking as ever!?!?**I almost feel ashamed of the fact that you'll nerf people who don't need it, but will leave the people who do need.

The most notable would be: Riven Yasuo Ekko Volibear Fiora

Let's begin shall we? Yasuo, his shield completely blocks the engaging of Katarina's q throughout the entire game I found. His ult? Only used when people get knocked up yet that can happen like every 3 seconds. When he does, it deals a lot of damage, and guess what? You can't get out of it. Riven was hit hard with her ult nerf, yet late game she is a huge monster that can't get killed. Her shield should have more of a cool down, her Q deal less damage due to the fact it is spammed, and her ult speed up but less damage. Volibear is far too tanky yet has way too much damage? Tanks don't do damage, they absorb it. Fiora is just generally a bullshit champ. And Finally Ekko, the one who can stun you, do damage, and do more damage. His ult still does way too much as does his q.

Why nerf champions when they don't need to be? Why not nerf people who need it, ranked or not.

22 Comments

On Your Side6/14/2015, 7:30:20 PM4 votes

I'd like Katarina to get a small rework. It's not that she's overpowered, it's that her kit is simply toxic. Because it's so instantaneous, chances are when she starts snowballing that she will have killed your Nami before her bubble animation have even started. She needs to be less overwhelming when she's snowballing and have more presence when she's not.

You're going to have a very hard time winning any sympathy votes for Katarina. People simply detest playing against her. They simply have too many bad memories of her instantly blowing them up to feel bad for the Champion, she usually takes the fun out of the game.

Trídent6/14/2015, 7:25:03 PM4 votes

Thought you were a cheese katarina main.....

turns out you actually are.

Katarina deserved her nerf, and the others may get theirs later. She's way too toxic.

M Schumacher6/14/2015, 9:09:43 PM3 votes

o my freelo machine got nerfed QQ

Calabok6/14/2015, 8:00:37 PM3 votes

yes. nerf her.

Der Lindwurm6/14/2015, 8:03:33 PM2 votes

I think they should just buff everyone till they're on Ekko's level rather than the endless cycle of nerf and counternerf.

Baby Ghoul6/15/2015, 1:10:44 PM2 votes

Katarina needed a nerf, and I don't think that's a secret.

Riven is the only one that sticks out on that list. I do think she's really powerful in the right hands, but I think you care more about how she's more likely to win lane against a Katarina. The fact that you think Yasuo Fiora needed nerfs more, or nerfs at all, said it all. I think they need reworks that would benefit their gameplay.

You're just singling out champions that Katarina naturally has a harder lane against, not thinking about what is best for the game. That is why I believe the community should not be in charge of what gets nerfed.

You should learn more about other champions, gameplay, and match ups. Practice makes perfect. It's what the rest of us who play champions outside of God tier have to do.

MacDthree6/15/2015, 2:41:15 PM1 votes

People like you are why the community can't decide nerfs. Kat took too little skill compared to how much damage she was doing. You either have to be difficult to combo, and do lots of damage, or be really easy to play and do decent damage. Kat is that second one. Everybody played that damned champ, and everybody liked facerolling with her, or grabbing a penta 1v5. She would have never gotten the nerf she deserved if the "mains" decided what happened to her. Get outta here.

Calabok6/14/2015, 8:17:11 PM1 votes

Kinda like ......Katarina but she does that to whole teams at once.

Malix Farwin6/14/2015, 8:17:29 PM1 votes

Not really a community decision, Katarina and Leblanc were basically the huge outliners after assassins took a hit.

TheTombstone6/14/2015, 8:44:31 PM1 votes

For Trident, I don't know what a cheese Katarina main is, but I don't only play her. I played plenty of other besides her. As for being toxic, assassins are meant to get kills, which even Rito does notice that people are too tanky. Katarina can easily be shut down by stuns. Bad memories are equal to being bad. If I play against a katarina and I have a stun our team shuts her down. She does take skill if you play her right. So, stop complaining if she's toxic, your either bad or good with her. Now I was using her as a reference, take this over powered champion which can be countered, EASILYKatarina vsYasuo Yas wins, however you guys put it. Rito hasn't been consistent with their nerfs and buffs, breaking the game worse and worse. Nerf the people who need to be, maybe katarina but definitely Those that are just godly.

Arsames6/14/2015, 9:09:07 PM1 votes

Assassin main here, play an Assassin that takes skill, Katarina is all point and click AYY LMAO :D I play her sometimes, have Kitty Cat Katarina, but lets not pretend she has a high skill cap.

Also, Yasuo takes 10x more skills than Katarina .

LordGeovanni6/15/2015, 7:12:19 AM1 votes

volibear is fine tanks deal damage over a longer period of time assassins mobas have high damage low cooldowns when the point of having an assassin is that they take opportunities to deal devastating blows. (this in real life would be to kill a target) in most other games i play assassins have high damage but longer cooldowns as to accent assination rather than high damage and spammable to assassinate 5 people with in 20 seconds assassins are broken as a whole then kattarina that has her cooldowns knock off 15 seconds after every kill she is one of the most broken assassins in the game