Talk:Katarina/@comment-177.53.132.243-20121228114353/@comment-81.159.164.112-20121228153705

Try zone her. waste mana. out of mana. base. lane pushed. Kat profit. rinse and repeat  -> eventual snowball.

Reasons why she is actually OP:

Low cost high profit aoe assasin (Fizz actually has costs)

Ranged harrass

Low cost due to being resourceless.

A good hit and run combo with low cost (percent dmg reduction + ms steriod)

Low cooldown escape on top of passive (6seconds too gd)

The new s3 changes have made buidling defensively a lot harder while at the same time have increased damage dealt due to pen changes. It is harder to build against Katarina, due to having a low cost (no resource) she can afford to itemise into high damage such as haunting guise while other laners have to try and itemise into their resource early (mana). She basically early snowballs off the pen items which are relatively hard to counter early and can be built relatively cheaply and early before any significant defence items (athenes) can be purchased. This is why assasins are becoming so much more popular especially low cost ones.