Talk:Katarina/@comment-70.66.78.120-20120925223910/@comment-178.166.24.118-20120928120511

I'll quote Tiensinoakuma here: old Kat made great use of Gunblade and Spell Vamp since she had an AD scaling on Q and an awesome high damage single target nuker with E. New Kat has more AoE damage and farming ability, but lost proper AD scalings (aside from ult) and shitloads of damage output on Shunpo, her only single target ability. Meaning spell vamp is now subpar on Katarina, and you're basically paying 1200 gold for 40 AP. A Blasting Wand gives you the same AP value but it's 340g cheaper, which you can use to buy like 10 health pots and have much more sustain than 12% Spell Vamp. But the biggest difference is here: Blasting Wand builds into a lot of items which are core on Kat (say Rabadons, DFG, Abyssal, Void Staff, w/e...) while Hextech only builds into two non-optimal items for new Kat and has to be sold eventually. So no, dont get Revolver ever.

For what's worth, here's my building path: Boots + 3 pots; KLP + pots and wards accordingly; rush Rabadons which should be acquired before the 20m mark unless your lane is a very tough one, in which case a Negatron should be thrown in the mix. Afterwards I finish my boots and Abyssal, then get DFG, GA, and Zhyona's. Obviously the order is situational. I usually don't get Void Staff since Kat already has enough damage output to assassinate the squishies super quickly if she engages correctly, but I can see it being more useful against a team with the likes of Urgot, Galio, etc.