Talk:Katarina/@comment-5209745-20140922115209/@comment-25180401-20140922195654

1. Agreed, depending on how fast you want to clear you may even want to take some flat ad runes or max w first. The downside of this is less burst damage when ganking.

2. Again, maxing w may help ganking when trying to stick to your target, at the cost of burs damage that can be equally as useful. The shunpo gapcloser helps for last-second harass a bit after they try to get away.

3. Interesting. Funny thing is shunpo is an aa reset, so shunpoing to an enemy could let you instantly proc stattik, hydra, or sheen if you wished.

4. Q only procs on direct damage from kat, not items or summoners, so i would doubt crescent.

Should you ever feel like trying harder while jungle-trolling and making it work more consistently, I advise a bruiser build. Boots of your choice, spirit of golem/wraith, rylais, abyssal, liandrys, zhonyas. Max q if enemy team is mobile so you can gank with burst and not worry about them running away without taking much damage, or max w if you want sustained damage ganks against less mobile, tankier champs.

Pros: Constant ganking with tons of damage, snowballs herself and lanes hard, after rylais has a little cc to help catch out people, is fairly effective even against teams with cc

Cons: If the enemy jungler is a good duelist and catches you out early, it is difficult to recover since you lost level advantage and clear power.