Talk:Katarina/@comment-26227828-20150321003453/@comment-26227836-20150324101434

Although I do feel that Katarina is stronger in SoloQ than in Team play, I enjoy playing her in ranked 5v5's more. Sure the enemy team can collaborate and coordinate, but so can my team.

Also, pre 5.2 Katarina's ult and w didn't reveal her in brushes/fog of war so TECHNICALLY, she WAS semi difficult to cc. I see no excuse for why Katarina's ult shouldn't be stopped immediately after channeling(this patch).

On the topic of "Katarina's strong/not strong." I play Katarina because personally, I think she's strong. Easily thwarted, but strong nonetheless. I used to main Sivir(levels 1-30) when ADCs were... not so strong. As we may or may not know, Sivir has a fairly low kill potential among marksmen due to her being a utility marksman and only having one real damage ability. One day, I got sick of getting so many assists and not being able to carry games very well and tried midlaning. I must  have bought at least 15 champions with my 30,000 ip. Anyway, I tried learning Katarina. I will say that it took me quite a while to learn her since I didn't fully understand the concept of ability power. Also, I had trouble not cancelling my ult. I got a lot of help from watching TiensiNoAkuma's streams and videos( and I still do watch his stream but it's more for entertainment). It felt great to have a champion with a gapcloser and kill potential. But I digress. I went from a champion whose only mechanics lie in an auto-attack reset and basic adc mechanics to a champion that has to incorporate flash into her combos, understand her damage output, wait for a window, ward-jump, and some other action-packed moves.

Anyway... I think Katarina's been picked in professional play for a total of 3 times? Once by Shiphtur and twice by PawN.

I yell sometimes when im watching high elo streams with games with Katarina. It's usually "why the heck would you fight with 30% health against a Katarina?" or "DUDE stop chasing Kat, she's gonna turn" or "stop fighting baron, you're gonna give her a penta" or "bot lane...plz...no...dont recall next to your tower at 100 health each...she's gonna... yep told ya" or "Syndra- Syndra- Syndra- WALK back to base. Don't recall under tower with 100 health... Kata has flash- whoop there it is."

Kat's been rising in popularity due to other midlaners being nerfed. I feel like people stop playing a champ just because they were nerfed. It doesn't matter how strong the champ still is **cough** Leblanc **cough** it's just that they weren't AS strong as they once were. And I get that. Playing AP Fizz these days is just so underwhelming considering... before.