Talk:Katarina/@comment-26035414-20171217124539/@comment-26227836-20171225024239

It'd be a good idea to list out where she's too strong. Straight nerfs would feel really bad for Katarina mains. She's already gotten her ward hop removed and a cast time tacked onto her Shunpo.

She's been getting a lot of attention since preseason/new runes. Electrocute is really really strong and easy to proc with Katarina. Zed's WEQ AA combo is getting a lot of complaints as well.

There're quite a few extraneous things that can be shaved off Assassins (like how ignite can proc electrocute...)

Right now she has too much damage and mobility. Hextech Gunblade is overloaded imo. Yasuo's been getting much less hate since his E damage got gut. He kept his mobility but lost out on early game cheese damage. Perhaps the same could be done to Katarina. Maybe her E has an instant reset on dagger catch but Shunpo doesn't do damage. Maybe her E cast time can be further shortened.

Right now there isn't a way to outplay a Katarina. You can't dissuade Kat from collecting her daggers unless you have a ton of reliable damage (Syndra) to fight back.

I enjoy playing new Katarina as much as the previous iteration. With the Rengar revert announcement, I hope people don't complain too much in hopes of getting Katarina changed. We only have so many 'Rito pls' credits.

IMO, Kat could still be playable/balanced if she were AD-based and had a mana source. Presence of Mind exists so Kat players shouldn't complain if she gets a mana resource.

There have been a lot of point and click cc spell removals over the years. Each time one of those is removed, Champions like Katarina and Yasuo see more play and get annoying to see. Champions with hypermobilty are allowed to exist because of champions like Annie and Poppy.