Talk:Katarina/@comment-12727893-20140721130139/@comment-5211662-20140722023258

Lol wut. On paper Katarina does little damage, but when you see her on action, you realize that she is one of the most powerful champions on the game in terms of damage. She can instakill any squishy champion late-game, without giving him any second to react, and due to her passive, she can potentially kill an entire team on seconds (in fact, Katarina is the easiest champion to pentakill with). Oh, and Katarina has one of the highest, if not the highest AoE damage in game.

To compensate all this, her ult is channeled. This means that she only has the potential to do massive damage, if your enemy is smart he will not make an entire team without at least 3 champions with hard CC to interrupt her ultimate. Katarina is high-risk, high-reward. If she can't channel her ult, she is worthless, although late-game she still has the potentiall to kill a squishy champion without having to channel her entire ult. It's important to note that Katarina herself is squishy, so hard CC and always focusing her during teamfights is the way to go. With that said, that's the only reason why Katarina is a balanced champion and doesn't really need a nerf to her damage.