Talk:Katarina/@comment-24082086-20151210094456/@comment-26227836-20151216063302

Dark Seal builds into Mejai's Soulstealer which I find myself building into somewhat often given my safe playstyle. The mana stat on Mejai's does make me sad though :/

As for Dark Seal, I've looked past the mana. Also, the 25% increased healing from health pots & flasks does make a difference. You know how when you have a really good milkshake or something, you drink it to your heart's content but when you only have a few slurps left you suddenly ration and savor it? It's kind of like health pots. You'll subconsciously use health pots extravagantly when you have many and thriftily when you have few.Just because an item gives you some of a stat you don't want/can't use doesn't mean you should avoid it if it's good overall. That being said, Boots with 4 Health Pots does allow you to outsustain your opponent which is a totally viable strategy.

A while back, I was inspired by Faker's response to "Why don't you take defensive masteries?" He replied something along the lines of "Why would I get defense if I can just dodge abilities?" So, I've resolved to focus on mitigating damage instead of turtling.

On the matter of the 5 extra damage or MS, I would get the 5 extra damage. Because Katarina is melee, her W does near zero damage, and her Q only comes up once every 10 seconds, the window for last hitting creeps is very small. If you are level 1, your Q is on cd, and your autos do 50 damage and a minion is at 51 health, you may not be able to get that minion because when the minion drops to 30 hp, your opponent may start harassing you and the minion would not be worth it at that point. This would be easier to show with diagrams but this is starting to get to far into general League.

Katarina has pretty good base MS and starts boots, and Luden's Echo gives 10% MS. I think the Movement Speed that you would get from the mastery would become more and more insignificant. If I remember correctly Movement Speed above 415 is hit with a soft cap.

If you really really like Movement Speed, you can use Movement Speed Quints if you aren't already.

You can never really have too much Movement Speed: https://youtu.be/z1aG5_NyhEc?t=20s

Oh dear, another skin? It took me long enough to get all the other ones XD.