I mean, when she is ahead she snowballs. But it really is hard for her to snowball early cause of her weak laning Phase. Even when she gets ahead early, there is just so much what can stop her. That Zhonyas cost increase and nerf made it even harder for her against AD assasins.
Please, look at her :))
personally, i think she could use a resource and early cooldown reductions. and a passive rework. but thats just me.
otherwise, a big heaping, no.
Katarina is an abominably abominable abomination. Until she's suitably reworked, I'd personally prefer she be as unviable as possible
No...
No. Her passive masks her weak early game, since while her cooldowns hold her back some, especially early game , her passive covers that. She is one of the few mid laners that can rush Luden's since she does not need a mana regen item like 95% of the other mid laners, give her the edge as far as raw AP goes, and Ludens works really well with her kit. Plus Tunderlords works in perfect sync with her pre level 6 combo, making it even easier to chunk your opponent pre 6. She is not oppressive, but not weak
her laning phase is not weak compared to many many other mid laners (worst pre 6 i think is still akali but shes another mess) and if you play her right shes still extremely strong. the recent changes just made it so that you cant just blindly go in teamfights and murder everyone she now takes a little more thought to play.
