Katarina for Jungle buff

King Empress·2/25/2020, 2:30:16 PM·1 votes·2,321 views

In light of the new buffs to what seems like a handful of random laners to become junglers, I would like to suggest Katarina to be one of those updates. With the right tweaks she could be a very good ganking jungler and she would be a risk to play with the lack off cc. It's kind of like a master yi jungle. My suggestions are make her dagger passive do a lot more damage to camps, make her w reduce it's cooldowns by autoattacking a jungle camp and/or having her q have reduced cooldowns on jungle camps similar to Eve Lynn but not as drastic of a cdr. At the end of the day you do what you want to make her viable for the jungle but I would just love to see her in the jungle in general.

4 Comments

Zlera2/25/2020, 2:41:03 PM2 votes

I do agree with this, to be honest. I play a lot of Katarina and I think she has a great kit for jungling, but her sustain sucks ass. I don't think she should get any extra resets from jungle creeps, that would just make her play-making in team fights ridiculous. (Imagine, a kat just full comboed and ran away. Hit a buff a few times and bam her Q and E are back up(I mean yes she has resets and decently low cooldowns if you get hourglass, but like no need to give her even more.)) I do think extra damage on jg monsters would be great, maybe 150% voracity damage to creeps.

T2K Baka2/25/2020, 4:11:38 PM2 votes

I think its a cool idea, but only add dmg to monsters. The whole reset cooldowns thing is definitely gonna be problematic. Probably the only thing she can have is extra dmg to monsters from passive, and a big maybe for dmg reduction on her shunpo against monsters only.

baitangpukaohua2/25/2020, 4:07:46 PM1 votes

2G TRUCBIZZARD2/27/2020, 4:11:44 PM1 votes

Yeah, I'd definitely love to see some Katarina jungle, since jungle kinda lack of AP (as a main jungle, I can affirm there are only few AP junglers that are viable atm). Though, she would need huge buffs to be able to jungle: she has no sustain at all, and she's squishy early + she's an AP champion, so her auto attacks don't deal much damage early, therefore her clear would be awful.

She would need both sustain and damage to be able to clear camps. And despite that, she would not be as strong as an Elise can be :'( her lack of hard CC makes Katarina jungle a pretty niche pick, since she would have many drawbacks early (no strong gank, no damage early, not a great clear, vulnerable to invades), and couldn't scale very well against a jungle who actually plays the early game.