Katarinas bad rework and Riots contradiction to her kit.

Katarina is by far the slowest assassin in the game to kill a target, she is by far the easiest to counter by the incredible amounts of CC this game has and what's even worst enemies can just walk away from her predictable dagger drops and ult to avoid all damage completely.

Her E -shunpo- was reworked from an instant blink to a 0.15 seconds delay (0.75 cast time + 0.75 after cast time) by which you can't do anything, not activate items or abilities which makes her really clunky and inconsistent and if you add up any type of lag like people who play on 100-120 ping makes for a really slow assassin.

Katarina is all about movement and tricking the enemy, old Katarina was all about that high risk high reward tricking enemies where she was going to blink and pretty much from there either you killed them and get a reset on your abilities or be a sitting duck, her laning phase was bad and beaten by every mid lane champion at the time, she depended on chaotic team fights and careless enemies to win a fight and get her resets, picking her was an all or nothing outcome wich players at the time accepted and liked about her, she was a wild card and depended alot on player skill and mastery.

This I quote from Riot games assassin rework which perfectly describes how old Katarina worked and why she was much hated and loved:

Katarina has a hard job: wait for the right targets to be in the right positions, track all of the opposing crowd controls, gauge her burst against the remaining champions’ health, and only when she sees the perfect moment, strike. Once she does, she needs to hit her basic abilities several times in a fraction of a second, leaving her a lot of room for error. If she succeeds, she can chain kill after kill and clean up a teamfight. If she fails, a single stray CC or mispressed key can turn all that planning into just a fantasy.

The link is here https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/gameplay/road-pre-season-assassin-update

Riot reworked Katarina to be slower in all her abilities because for them she was too fast and didn't give enemies chance to counter her once she went in and gets rolling, which totally contradicts everything said above.

And I quote:

But we also want her opponents to be able to tell what’s happening. We’re slowing down her abilities, and giving opponents a better indication of where Katarina is and where she’s going so that they can better respond to her threat.

Here Riot first tell us its difficult for Katarina to kill her targets as she needs to** first** wait for targets to be in a good position **second **keep track of the enemies CC abilities third calculate your burst against the enemies remaining health and fourth hit her abilities perfectly in a fraction of a second with a lot of room for error.

And now all of a sudden Riot throws a curveball and tells us that even after all that work and calculation after she literally needs all the planets and stars to aline, her opponents still need a way to shut her down and stop her as if she was not possible to stop.

Now Riot decides to literaly tone her down not only in speed but also in skill and I can prove it with this quote:

We want to empower Katarina to make those plays even when the stars aren’t perfectly aligned. We’re giving her more mobility to dance in and out of the fight until she can start the reset train going, and making her spellcasts more meaningful and deliberate.

Now Riot decides to cut down the calculations a player needed to make and skill to get her rolling, now you can go into a fight without worrying about that which really sets apart good and bad Katarina players, now Katarina does not need a kill for her E -shunpo- to get a reset now she only needs to land near a dagger drop making her jump more in fights but in a much slower and predictable fashion.

A lot of assassins who also went thru the rework all but got reverted back due too poor design and community backlash, examples what stops Riot games from reverting the clear dumbed down poorly executed rework of ?

Riot games I took my time and effort to make this post to open your eyes and tell you to please revert Katarina back to her original and masterpiece of a champion design she was. Thanks for reading.