User blog comment:Elecissa/Future Katarina changes and all Katarina post/@comment-25003900-20150120162629

One particular thing that I really hate about this is that if she shunpos to a target irrelevant of killing her target or not, she gets 80% CDR, sure that's great for people who play Katarina, however it makes her largely ungankable as the only way to gank her previously was to wait for her to shunpo and not kill the laner so it's on CD and she can't basically double flash out of a gank.

On the other hand if I'm reading the W properly, it goes from 180 +25% AP + 60% AD to instead being 120% of AD + 25% of AP I kind of like this and overall the way the changes work on her beause it makes her a bit harder to snowball with, which is a large part of the Katarina problem, how easy it is to snowball with her in early game against typically fragile lane opponents.

All in all I'll have to see how the changes would actually affect her as I'm having difficulty working it from a theoretical perspective, but adding more mobility to an already extremely mobile assassin, doesn't seem like the best idea to me. I still hold firm that Katarina's problems lie in her passive resetting all of her basic abilities from their first ranks, as well as 1/3 of the cooldown on her ultimate at max level. With that passive it's not to hard to jump in, ult, pick up 3 kills 0 assists to 0 kills and 3 assists scoring the full resets and letting her ult right away again. Reworking that passive to be a % reset instead of a flat reset would solve her problem, it can still be large, but as long as she can't go instant ability spamming, I think that would fix the problems people have with her. Maybe an 80% reduction in cooldowns on kill/assist would be appropriate. Master Yi for example runs 70% on longer cooldowns and it works quite well for him. It may not seem like that big of a deal, but having a second before you can reactivate the full rotation again actually allows for a bit of counterplay rather than the situation of I'm squishy so Katarina jumped on me and blew me up instantly without looking at her ultimate, then proceeded to blow up our other carry before going to work on the rest of our team and effectively chunking their health pools to oblivion for the rest of the team to finish off.

You are right in saying that some simple CC can eliminate her ultimate, but, most Katarina's aren't picked at a point when you can plan for that. People often get baited by say, Diana Jungle, or a Yasuo/Zed top, which opens up mid and suddenly there's a Katarina, when you picked for Diana or Yasuo instead. Or lately I've seen Support Katarina sneak into the game. Even the rare Katarina top lane. So if you plan on it sure you can counter her really well, but it's not always 100% possible on light CC or even Ult only CC teams.