I was wondering if Katarina would be able to assassinate people if she got 
and went full AD.
Q them, drop your W, E to them, AA as much as you can, E to safety as needed. Yes you'd be losing damage on your skills, but ADCs are the best assassins right now and katarina has some small AD ratios still.
At that point you'd be a less bursty assassin and still squishy. Which kind of defeats the point of playing an Assassin if you don't have burst.
Uh, probably? She has a 100% bonus AD ratio on passive, 50% bonus AD ratio on shunpo, and up to a 330% bonus AD ratio on ult.
It probably wouldn't be as good as AP kat, but it would work. I just can't see any reason to build her AD, when her abilities all deal magic damage and scale better with AP.
ADC's do the damage they do because of natural steroids in their kit. Building AD on kat won't have anywhere near the same effect.
Yeah it's okay. Also some nice AA damage to keep a little DPS if you cant burst or finish someone.
Her dagger pick ups will still do decent damage if you add lethality into the mix. Your ult won't do jack damage, it scales terribly with ad compared to ap. AD Kat would just be a build you try for fun since it's definitely out shined by AP. You wouldn't take it expecting to win.
Trading consistent damage with AAs for burst damage doesn't make sense since Kat just gets in and gets out
and have the janna/lulu just start supporting you instead of the adc.
Man this meta is horrible.
Ow god no, plz. Toplane 
Nostalgia for old bloodthrister stack Kat is so intense right now.
core with thunderlords works on literally any melee with a strong gap closer for assassination because combined they add about 900 damage to your first auto.
Optional items after that.
combined are the biggest increase and give you lots of sustained damage.
for defensive options
is an option if they're pokey.
I would suggest for Kat specifically, go dual pen runes. And for your assassination pattern activate titanic then E - W while your guaranteed auto goes off, then start channeling your ult. It has the advantage of only relying on a single auto attack to assassinate, which is desirable for a multitude of reasons. You can't really flash it, you can't much react at all to it and it just does like 1200-1300 or more damage right out of the gate. It's also preferable to what Riot has done to assassination patterns in general. The assumption that there has to be a delay in their damage was the single worst thing they've ever done to the game in my opinion.
All they had to do was what they did with . Put the damage delay in the itemization, not in the champions.
Absolutely 0 reason to do that when Yi and Yas exist. But I guess if you wanna see it in action flyerbek might have some crit kat highlights videos
there used to be an ad katarina one trick pony lurking the depths of bronze
i wonder if they're still around?
She has good AD ratios but could not effectively use IE or Crit items.
are really the only AD items she can effectively use.
While the lifesteal on Death's Dance and Bloodthirster are extremely lackluster on Katarina, they're not wasted like Lethality would be from Youmuu's/Duskblade. Since she has almost zero use for continual auto attacks, critical is similarly wasted.
