Talk:Katarina/@comment-5771269-20121121104015/@comment-4659726-20121122072226

Cho maybe, at the very least he won't die mid lane. The problem however is that she roams and gets a kill or two and easily snowballs the rest of the game. Janna probably won't work as she is extremely squishy and will melt to Katarina. Her disengage with her ult is not as useful as it once was and Katarina's damage is no longer all in her ultimate.

Before you countered her by just not letting her ult channel for a while. Now she just E > Q > W's into a fight and presses R. If she gets a kill or assist she E > Q> W's the next lowest guy, interrupting her R. At least half her damage is in her QWE skills and that becomes a problem since it is so bursty while being safe due to damage reduction from E.

Still a somewhat decent ban imo, there are so many Katarina players nowadays and it is very very difficult to have a solo queue game where she won't snowball as she can AoE burst teams down even without her ult.