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[Champion Rework] Katarina, the Sinister Blade

SwipeZ·1/10/2016, 10:50:54 PM·2 votes·1,118 views

This is a repost from a rework I designed for Katarina in reddit. IMPORTANT. This is still a WIP rework, so abilities and numbers are not final.

Katarina, the Sinister Blade

Base Stats Damage ~ 56(+3.2 per level) 113.6 max Attack Speed ~ 0.660(+2.75% per level) Health ~ 530(+78 per level) 1934 max Move Speed ~ 345 Armor ~ 27(+3.5 per level) 89 max Magic Resist ~ 32(+1.25 per level) 54.5 max Health Regen ~ 6.8(+0.55 per level) 16.7 max Range ~ 150 (melee)

Abilities

Passive: Noxian Discipline: Enemy champions hit by auto attacks and Assassin's Edge are marked by Katarina for 3 seconds increasing her damage to them by 5% for a max of 15% extra damage. Additionally, certain abilities receive extra effects on marked enemies. The marks are able to stack up to 3 times, each time a new mark is added, the mark timer is refreshed

Q: Whirlwind of Daggers: Katarina spins and throws her daggers around her dealing 60/70/80/90/100(+0.2AP) magic damage in a circle around her. If Whirlwind of Daggers hits an enemy champion, the cooldown is refreshed and all marks of Noxian Discipline are consumed.

Radius 275 Cooldown 3 Cast Time Instant

*this skill is meant to be a nice source of DPS for Katarina as well as provide some AoE waveclear

W: Assassin's Edge: Katarina makes two quick autoattacks in rapid succession(max attack speed) each dealing 60/80/100/120/140(+0.25AP) magic damage for a total of 120/160/200/240/280(+0.5AP) magic damage. Assassin's Edge also adds a proc of Noxian Discipline for each successful autoattack made by Katarina.

Cooldown 10

*this skill is meant to be her primary burst damage other than her ult

E: Shunpo: Katarina blinks behind an enemy target dealing 30/40/50/60/70(+0.15AP) magic damage, she may reactivate this ability again within 4 seconds. The second blink deals the same damage as before for a total of 60/80/100/120/140(+0.3AP) magic damage to a single target. If she hits an enemy afflicted with Noxian Discipline she takes 15% less damage for 2 seconds and all marks of Noxian Discipline are consumed.

Range 600 Cooldown 24/21/18/15/12

*this is Katarina's gap closer. It is meant to add some extra damage as well as providing some protection as she goes in to use Assassin's Edge for the real damage

R: Death's Kiss: Passive: On kills Katarina's cooldowns are reduced by 20 seconds. Active: Katarina blinks to an enemy champion and slits their throat dealing 250/300/350(+0.6AP) magic damage and stunning them for 1 second. If the enemy champion is marked by Noxian Discipline the damage is converted to true damage instead and all marks of Noxian Discipline are consumed.

Range 600 Cooldown 120

*Quite a simple ult for the active part. It is similar to shunpo; however it also stuns and deals a hefty amount of damage that can become rather dangerous if the enemy champion is marked

Just some final thoughts for this. As stated above, I tried to incorporate the things people loved about her kit back into my "rework" well also shooting for a very strong single target damage dealer. Her burst with her full combo should be more than enough to assassinate a single target, combined with her passive adding extra damage. Ideally, her playstyle is somewhat of a weak laner that is able to provide a large amount of pressure if the opponent makes a misplay due to her large single target burst. Just going to say this now, these numbers for everything are not necessarily final, they are just a rough idea of what my "rework" would give her. Another important thing I tried to do is remove most of her AoE damage in order to help keep her resets from being too overpowered. The way I "tried" to do this was make most of her skills single target as to pose a large threat to a single target and other targets if she does receive a kill as is she can dish out a lot more damage once again. Any and all comments are welcome.

Edit: thanks for the feedback. I will work on changing her ult, not now, but after I do there will be another edit.

9 Comments

Bootleg Gay1/10/2016, 11:01:05 PM1 votes

Maybe let Whirlwind of Daggers get a half cooldown, not refreshed. Or take away the reseting factor and give it more damage, seeing as she gets tests from her ultimate.

This looks so much healthier for the game than the current design of her. I really like it and like that it's an actual rework, unlike others I've seen.

Design: 9/10 Uniqueness: 8/10 Healthiness: 9/10 Appeal: 10/10.

CrimsonCobra31/10/2016, 11:57:52 PM1 votes

I don't like the Ult. Otherwise, I have no major objections. (I'm not sure Katarina needs a rework, but that's not necessarily important. If she were reworked to something that resembled this, I think it would be pretty good.)

About the ult: it feels redundant and overpowered. The passive is already very close to what she has now, but it's worse, and what with the insane burst her ult gives her, getting that CD reduction would be pretty easy. I like the conversion to true damage, but I dislike the mechanic. (Mostly because it's just like her E--since she already has that, maybe her ult should be an auto-attack that deals extra damage when behind the opponent. This leaves a healthy level of counterplay.)

~[CrimsonCobra3]

SirHeavyScrotum1/11/2016, 2:50:20 AM1 votes

So one of the problems with Katarina currently is that when you ult it feels like you're not really making a cool play, you just pressed R and shit died. Playing against it feels the same way, she just went in, pressed R, we died. This ult has the same problem. I have an idea for an ult that could feel a little more interactive. Idk about a name for it.

"Katarina marks her target for assassination for the next 3/4/5 seconds. During this time, while within (X Distance, I'm not good at numbers, somewhat close) Katarina gains an additional charge of Shunpo. Katarina marks three special daggers for her target. During the duration of (ult name) she may reactivate this ability to launch a dagger (medium range skill shot with a small hitbox, kind of like a LeBlanc chain, with a .3 second delay between each cast, stops on hitting a unit) that is marked for her target. Each dagger deals (small amount) of magic damage and applies a stack of Noxian Discipline. Daggers may only deal damage and apply Noxian Discipline to the target of (ult name)."

If you did this, you would of course need to reduce the damage on Noxian Discipline a little bit because it would become more accessible, which would inherently nerf her laning phase pre 6, or when her ult is down period. However, this would preserve her high single target burst while giving her a more "counterplayable" kit. It would make it so that she does have to get her target alone, as if you try to hit your target with a tank sitting on their face your knives are going to bounce off the tank. Also if someone manages to dodge all three of them at point blank range, your damage is going to be somewhat lack luster. However, if you hit two or three of them, as well as apply the stacks from your W, you will probably 1 shot with your Q. To me it would give her a more "precise" feeling, which I think is an important part of her personality, as well as an important part of playing an Assassin in general. If Assassins weren't precise, they would be mages (dealing a lot of damage over an area to any target in the area of effect). You, and your enemies, would feel like you earned the kill, rather than just pressed R and got a kill.

Akenero1/12/2016, 12:19:50 AM1 votes

Uhhhhhh shunpos to any given champion MASHES THAT Q KEY

maxaroni1181/12/2016, 12:40:16 AM1 votes

Im pretty sure everyone agrees that katarina already gives enough laning pressure with the misplays and single target burtsting...

also everyone (i think) will agree that she is annoying enough to play against so why make her ult even more annoying?

lastly, her passive is talon's passive i think? i forgot... but it might be darius too idk

SwipeZ1/15/2016, 3:26:53 AM1 votes

I have one idea for her ultimate, make it reset all her cooldowns and if she gets a kill it lowers her ultimates cooldown instead of all of her abilities