Katarina Rework Concept

This Katarina rework concept focuses on the idea of "A Thousand Cuts", as well as integrating the "Dagger" mechanic from the current iteration of Katarina. The idea of this rework is that instead of using massive AOE burst from Daggers and Voracity to kill the entire enemy team, instead you have access to easier to use resets and great mobility to whittle down as many targets as possible.

Some notes: All damage values (beyond just scalings) are subject to change. W does not have a name at this time as I do not have a name for it. The unknown Bonus AD values on most of the skills are a consequence of a lack of a good core item (besides Hextech Gunblade) for manaless AP Casters. That said, they are subject to being removed or given a value.

Passive: Deadly Velocity

Each time Katarina damages an enemy champion 3 times with abilities or basic attacks, she marks them with Deadly Velocity for 5 seconds. Katarina can instantly blink to an area around an enemy champion (500 units) with Deadly Velocity, and her ability cooldowns are instantly reset, consuming the mark. Cooldown reduction cannot occur on the same target for 45 seconds.

Damage from on-hit effects, spell effects, or summoner spells do not contribute to Deadly Velocity.

Katarina is briefly untargetable when blinking to her target.

The stacking portion does not fall off unless Katarina dies or if the target moves more than 1250 units away from her. The resulting mark only falls off after 5 seconds.

Q: Dancing Dagger Cooldown: 9 seconds. Range: 700 units Bounce Range: 500 units. Katarina throws a Dagger in a selected direction. If it hits an enemy unit, then it quickly ricochets between 5 unique enemy units, dealing 40/60/80/100/120 (+30% AP) magic damage. If Katarina has a Dagger available, then it will fall to the ground on the last target hit.

Sinister Steel: Blinking Daggers Katarina can now throw 2 additional Daggers that move instantly between targets.

Dancing Dagger and Blinking Daggers prioritize enemy champions.

W: ??? Cooldown: 12 seconds Range: 340 units Katarina slashes targets in front of her over a period of 1 second using her Daggers. This deals 70/90/110/130/150 (+50% AP) (+??% Bonus AD) magic damage to all targets struck. If Katarina has a Dagger, then she drops it where she was when she’s done with the ability.

Sinister Steel: ??? Katarina instead cleaves through everything around her using her Daggers, dealing the same damage.

E: Preparation Cooldown: 15 seconds Range: 250 units. Backflip Distance: 550 units Katarina backflips away from a selected target, and throws 3 blades at them, dealing 60/75/90/105/120 (+35% AP) (+??% Bonus AD) magic damage total. For the duration of the backflip (1.25 seconds), she can reactivate the ability to blink directly behind the target depending on where she was facing when she backflipped. If Katarina has a Dagger, then she drops it at the end of her backflip when reactivating the ability.

Sinister Steel: Assault Range: 800 units Katarina instead blinks through her target, appearing at the edge of the ability range and dealing the same damage to everyone in her path.

Katarina is briefly untargetable when blinking behind or through her target.

R: Sinister Steel Dagger Regen Rate: 30 seconds Passive: Katarina’s abilities drop Daggers at the end of their casts. If Katarina picks up a Dagger, her next ability used in 5 seconds is enhanced, and deals an additional +1/2/3% (+1% per 100 AP) missing health magic damage. You gain 1 Dagger when the cooldown reduction from Deadly Velocity is activated.

Katarina can hold up to 1/2/3 Daggers to use later.

Katarina can only pick up 1 Dagger at a time; picking up a Dagger while already having picked a Dagger refreshes the duration, but does not enhance two abilities.