Talk:Katarina/@comment-3123751-20130530214721/@comment-5920585-20130603014104

In truth, the unskilled Katarina players I encounter treat her like a walking ultimate. Sure, you'll pubstomp lower levels and ranks with that frame of mind, but the moment you play against a team that actually knows how to utilise hard CC, these same players cry that 'Kat is so UP!'

Bitch, no. I'll never be able to overstate how paramount timing and positioning are to Katarina, a trait she has retained from her pre-rework incarnation. Wait until a teamfight has been well and truly established (that is, once your opponents have blown the majority of their hard CC on your ADC or whoever...which they will, I can assure you), then Shunpo in and unleash your maelstrom of death on the most vulnerable target.

Another retarded thing I see so many players do is stopping the channel of Death Lotus early after netting a single kill in a teamfight. If you're able to let it channel fully, do so, damn it! I know the prospect of her resets can be enticing, but by cancelling Death Lotus early so as to use your basic abilities once again, you're wasting so much damage potential. Sure, I understand that in some cases, you're better off re-casting your basic abilities so as to clean up at the end of a fight, but not when your opponents are still at half health and will not yet die to your basic ability combo.

She still does perfectly well; I play her every single day and honestly just love her all the more, knowing where her obvious strengths and weaknesses lie. A good Kat can still carry for her team, regardless of her post-rework/post-nerf status.