Talk:Katarina/@comment-26227828-20150321003453/@comment-26227828-20150408202408

Roaming as Katarina has and (likely) always will be powerful. Up until you get to maybe gold 3-ish, people likely aren't going to be warding or killing the scuttle crab very often. Those are key factors for preventing giving her an early double. Freezing the lane is another good option, and tanking a tankier, heavier cc support in bot lane is an amazing idea when facing Kat. Take Leona for example. She has 3 stuns (I believe), is tanky all game, and all in all, a really good support. As for the adc, watch the mini-map. If you don't watch the map, you are just asking to die and give away free gold. Another thing is try to get every dragon possible for your team. First dragon is very powerful on Kat, due to it being 6% increase in AP and AD.

Lastly, Katarina has been a risky pick recently due to the tank meta becoming a major thing in almost all ranks. Unless you have Sejuani (or similar champions like Amumu), she isn't going to be doing much. On top of that, Amumu and Sej are very strong champions right now, just "increasing" Katarina's power. It's sort of like a Lee Sin situation, where they fit into almost every team comp. Kat needs tanky people with decent to high cc to do anything productive in a team fight that isn't filled with ignorant people.