Katarina Shunpo Animation

UnDispelled·2/8/2017, 12:19:48 AM·2 votes·1,031 views

Originally, Katarina's Shunpo was a blink that immediately teleported Kat to her target. It essentially became part of her identity as the "Pentakill Champ" as she teleported from victim to victim. This looked particularly awesome in "A Twist of Fate" where Katarina assumed the identity of the teleport-y assassin. After the rework, the ability hasn't changed much in nature (used to get around) but the animation and tooltip changed. The current tooltip reads "Katarina dashes in the blink of an eye to the target ally, enemy, or Dagger..." which is confusing because it mentions both forms of mobility: Blinks, and Dashes. Specifically, it implies that Katarina DASHES to her target, when this is in fact not the case. Specifically in a game against a Veigar, I remember using Shunpo to attack him through his Event Horizon. Despite being a blink, the animation implies Katarina physically moving to the target, and she instead blinks there, with a separate animation that defies reality. It's a weird tooltip and the animation is counterintuitive, and coupled with the fact that blinking to her target like the old Kat is simply more badass and accurate, is why the shunpo animation should reflect the reality of the situation.

17 Comments

zrWQMdGHtY2/8/2017, 12:57:34 AM1 votes

Dashes in the blink of an eye... Dashes in a magical portal behind her that opens behind the enemy... I think the description doesn't really change what the skill actual does and giving the fact there's a cast time that wasn't written anywhere to be added, but it's added (got confirmation about it), means she really does that action... which explains why no path blocking CC can affect her... So I don't know what you're talking about... If they make it longer so you can see it then they should just remove the skill as it will be so long that there wont be a point to use it the first place anymore...

Terozu2/8/2017, 2:16:10 AM1 votes

Yes, and camille knocks back champs on landing her e, the game still says knock up, and Shunpo, means "flash step", as in step at about the speed of light to a champ, and you actually can see her full animation, it just isn't a dash in code. Assumedly she just dodges the stun particles, or moves so fast she can move through walls.