Would AD katarina work?

Linna Excel·10/12/2017, 7:16:34 PM·3 votes·2,999 views

I was wondering if Katarina would be able to assassinate people if she got item 3031item 3087 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.

16 Comments

Lord Dusteon10/12/2017, 8:15:39 PM2 votes

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.

Leaf of the lake10/12/2017, 7:24:40 PM2 votes

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.

Quality Content10/12/2017, 8:13:12 PM1 votes

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.

NazZomLord10/12/2017, 8:14:36 PM1 votes

Yeah it's okay. Also some nice AA damage to keep a little DPS if you cant burst or finish someone.

StairCasexd10/12/2017, 8:17:49 PM1 votes

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

ChuShoe10/12/2017, 8:20:16 PM1 votes

and have the janna/lulu just start supporting you instead of the adc.

Man this meta is horrible.

Escheton10/12/2017, 8:37:19 PM1 votes

Ow god no, plz. Toplane Katarina item 3508 item 3046item 3146

Chibi Templar10/12/2017, 8:46:09 PM1 votes

Nostalgia for old bloodthrister stack Kat is so intense right now.

ZerglingOne10/12/2017, 10:23:09 PM1 votes

item 3147 item 3748 item 3078 item 3020 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. item 3031 item 3087 combined are the biggest increase and give you lots of sustained damage. item 3742 item 3812 for defensive options item 3083 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 item 3812. Put the damage delay in the itemization, not in the champions.

Nut on my Butt10/12/2017, 11:34:38 PM1 votes

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

Automatis10/12/2017, 11:53:07 PM1 votes

there used to be an ad katarina one trick pony lurking the depths of bronze

i wonder if they're still around?

Busty Demoness10/12/2017, 7:29:44 PM1 votes

She has good AD ratios but could not effectively use IE or Crit items.

item 3812 item 3146 item 3072 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.