Talk:Katarina/@comment-24496127-20161110052135/@comment-24496127-20161110084629

Shunpo. Investing in some early AD to abuse the scaling on it, you can get a surprising amount of damage from q, e onto target, w, pick up the blade from q, e onto target again, pick up blade from w, e again. You can even pick up blades while ulting, so you can use your ult basically anywhere in the combo and get a good amount of burst damage from the w blade landing on you.

I actually wanted to try maxing shunpo first in a game, just to speed up the combo and add damage, but the huge cooldown on her other abilities and the fact that I wouldn't be gaining much base damage persuaded me out of it.

I think the cooldown on her w is honestly a bit ridiculous. It's just a burst movespeed that throws a dagger. Decaying movespeed at that, so not even that strong of a movespeed increase overall. Yes it tosses a dagger, but I still can't help but feeling like there are times I just have nothing to do for awkwardly long amounts of time while I wait for cooldowns.

The delay on her burst and the huge scaling on her daggers makes me wonder if bruiser Kat is the new thing. Liandries, Rylais, Abyssal, Zhonya's, merc tread, ga, is one build I want to try. There are far tankier ones that I think could still be effective though. I've just struggled a lot to make glass cannon work like it used to, her burst just takes too long from my experience.