My story with Katarina

Hi, My name is FacerollKatarina and I am (obviously) a Katarina one trick. I just wanted to contribute my two cents the Katarina rework and how I personally feel about it (kinda emotional post so be warned)

Katarina has been by far my favorite champion in the game ever since I bought her, her kit fit my playstyle exactly, fast paced, easy to pick up, but a lot of neat tricks to abuse. When I heard assassins were being tackled in the preseason, my heart immediately sank, because I thought the worst of it thinking Katarina would get changed. Lots of people told me they didn't think she was gonna be changed, but then it turns out that Katarina was announced to be one of the major reworks. Naturally I was pretty uneasy about it ever since, and every bit of information concerned me. Finally when the kit was released and I got a chance to play it. I hated it, I thought it was slow, clunky, and not true to what Katarina was meant to be.

However, the next day I reflected on my feelings of the Katarina rework, I realized it wasn't as bad as I thought it was. I thought back to my feelings on a champion i used to love but got reworked, Fiora. Before Fiora was reworked, she was one of my favorite champions (after Katarina of course). When i played her rework, I never got into it and today I still struggle because I kept trying to play her like i played the old one, and that was my biggest issue, and I know that this Katarina and the old Katarina are completely different.

I know at the end of the day that this Katarina, the champion I fell in love with, will never be the same champion I fell in love with. But thats okay, because it is time for a change. Katarina's current design is not very healthy. I knew that from the start but I never actually accepted it until I saw her new abilities. If she got ahead, she was virtually unstoppable if the player knew what she was doing.

It sucks that tomorrow morning I will wake up and this Katarina I loved will be gone. Everytime i got the urge to play Kat, I got on and did it. After today, I will never be able to satisfy that again. It feels like something important is dying and it is time to move on. So I just want to say goodbye to katarina. Thank you for being the champion that I fell in love with and changed my video game experience forever. I'll never forget all of my memories with the baron steals, the 1v5 penta kills, and the game turn arounds. Maybe, one day, I'll be able to play her again, just like she is now.

To all my fellow Katarina, Rengar, Talon, and Leblanc players, embrace these last hours with your champion, because after that, they're gone forever. But trust the changes, because at the end of the day most of the changes were needed, as some of the play patterns these champions had are toxic and slightly boring to play against.

Thank you again, Katarina, for all of the memories I've created playing you :).

EDIT: This is not a post saying I hate the new rework, just how I will miss the old one.