User blog comment:Gnomeco/Katarina - Should be buffed?/@comment-11603965-20140416063119

I don't think increasing any of her damage or buffs on the utility of her E and W are gonna do it. It is in fact, as Willbachbakal said, gonna worsen her problems. She already got some significant buffs to her ult when she was already strong and I feel it only makes her snowball harder.

As for buffing q, I think this would be completely unneeded. It has a huge range and is only cd-limited giving you a very strong position in laning phase as a melee assassin. In most matchups it's best to max q first, so saying farming with it is hard isn't right since it does a ton of damage at level 3 already, before you have your ult. If an enemy is stupid enough to walk into the minion wave then they ARE gonna get hit by a blade plus you get your farm. It's not like you can't do both with one spell.

Buffing damage early would be nice on her W, but buffing it lategame, when she is able to get loads of resets thus more damage, would be insane. For utility, I personally wouldn't buff it just because you're already able to dodge slower skillshots with it. If you'd buff it even further you'll eventually get matched against a good Kata as something like Syndra and you can't ever hit her with anything because she outruns you so hard. Reason there is a risk to an ability is because there would otherwise be no counterplay to it (let's face it, nobody liked the pre-nerf riven E AT ALL). This thing also has a gigantic hitbox, which isn't fair either, because you don't even have to get into melee range on a melee champ to farm because of W. It's smooth, so the damage on it doesn't matter too much for farming.

Wouldn't buff E. You get damage reduction which is insane since you don't have resources at all. Virtually has no cooldown when it matters since kills or assist reduce the cooldowns of basic abilities to 0, so diving is easier. Makes you stupidly mobile in combination with W since you can't get ganked properly every 12 seconds if you have a trinket or ward to jump to or even minions. It already allows her to clean up fights because of it's mobility so I wouldn't see why it would need any more damage if it also gives you mobility.

Her R has already recieved major damage buffs, I don't feel like giving it more damage would be appropiate since it's use is all about strategional positioning and timing. It's already strong as an execute ability (high damage when not targeted by CC), laning ability, (low CD)  and even stronger as a teamfighting ability (mo' enemies mo' problems). A well placed ultimate lategame can deal about 12500 damage. Without taking basic abilities into the calculation. A lot of hidden strenght also comes from the fact it can invisible targets, which I personally think is extremely unfair.

I think Katarina is in a pretty strong position right now. Mainly because of the latest changes to WotA, her laning is stronger than it used to be.