Talk:Katarina/@comment-9705522-20131017201547/@comment-3308937-20131017204314

She originally had a stacking attack speed buff attached to her W, it got changed to a stacking AD buff and then got changed into the version most people know in the Garen patch which just increases the damage you deal by a flat amount.

To be honest, I wouldn't see either versions as a melee ad carry as that term is for champions like Trynd, Yi and Fiora who have ridiculous steroids and low damage on their abilities. She was a melee caster who had an incentive to auto attack.

After the Garen patch, which also included a buff to the ap ratio of Death Lotus, the amount of AP Kats, the superior Kat, rose substantially. AD Kat (bloodthister stack) became a pubstomp build where AP Kat became the dominant competitive build.