Riot Feedback on Katarina Rework?

fevercry·1/21/2015, 5:20:33 PM·2 votes·941 views

We already have a complaint thread, so let's perhaps move past that and try to keep feedback constructive here.

My one question to Riot would be why it is necessary to change Katarina's play pattern at this point, making her even more confused in regards to itemization esp. when you take away one of her core items (DFG). I've played every Kat iteration, and honestly have felt that this is the most balanced one. Just from gauging the notes, this seems to make her laning phase very, very weak, without appreciable gain for Kat's who already knew how to use passive to get lots of mobility in fight, and no late game damage compensation.

If this was intended as a nerf, in addition to the DFG removal, couldn't you have tweaked numbers once again? Or waited to see how DFG played out? It seems hasty to change/nerf fundamental skills without gauging the impact of DFG.

2 Comments

SpongebobIsLife1/21/2015, 6:58:44 PM1 votes

Yea, this is my point exactly. I had thought the DFG removal would be a really substantial nerf to Katarina as it is the ultimate snowball item for her.

paulolol1/21/2015, 7:34:12 PM1 votes

DFG is first buy on her (unless you get hourglass for Zed or an AD comp) and now they want Gunblade to be first buy. Which is dumb because the only skill that actually benefited fully from the spell vamp was shunpo and now it does no damage.

And they also want a squishy assassin to auto attack the opposing midlaner who is most likely ranged. Lower initial Q damage means her poke does even less damage... Any seasoned Kat player will usually gauge their strength/fed-ness with the amount of damage Q will do to their laners. Now that Q damage upfront is shit and requires you to get in their face to detonate the mark, which will get you killed. That damage reduction is really really short. Targeted point and click abilities sometimes take more than 1.5 seconds to damage you after you shunpo away which makes you not get the damage reduction.

I've played Kat since pre lvl 10. She's one of the first champs I've ever played (never played the Killer Instincts Kat though) and the first champ I've ever mained. I recently put her down because it requires a lot of skill to actually carry a game with her in higher ELO because most people know how to counter her. I'm not putting the last nail in the coffin but I've pretty much lost hope in this new Kat.