Talk:Katarina/@comment-195.235.105.231-20120404093151/@comment-4957501-20120405135228

But I'm seeing a lot of Kat's mid these days. Granted, you still have to play passive against most conventional mids, but the solo lane gets you the the 6 really fast, and then you can start ganking really hard.

Yes, her damage output is meh after she gets cc'd..... because it interrupts her ulti. See, I know I sound like one of those Death Lotus fanboys, but really, Katarina depends on getting a kill or atleast an assist of the initial Shunpo + Death Lotus combo so that she can BB + Shunpo the next low hp target and try to trigger her chain reaction.

Though I agree W is pretty useless. The damage mitigation of Shunpo isn't nearly half as useful as it sounds and the utility of the effect it has on BB is very situational. It's best feature is adding more damage to DL, which still doesn't make it any easier to land.

Don't get me wrong though, I still love playing Katarina. She's High-risk-high-reward defined, but I just think a minor buff like the ability to move while casting Death Lotus would improve things a lot. It would take skill and anticipation on your part to maneuver yourself in such a way so that you can maximize the damage while simultaneously avoiding manually aimed CC's, and it would make you less dependant on an ally landing a stun or knockup or snare for your DL to do it's max damage. The only other way you'll get the full 3 seconds off, even on an unsuspecting opponent, is if they're simply really, really bad.