User blog comment:TheTobarMethod/Do AP's Need A QSS Upgrade?/@comment-4921386-20130903232439/@comment-4921386-20130905231227

> QSS is useless on Katarina lol

Thanks for starting off with a condescending remark.

Your lack of respect aside, you haven't really said anything that convinces me that nukers need a QSS upgrade.

Even with significant amounts of CDR, most burst champions will only be able to get a single rotation off before they're either killed or the teamfight is over. I never that these champions dump a rotation and leave, I said that once they've dumped their rotation, they've fufilled their job in obliterating a target or forcing it to retreat. You get crowd controlled and killed? Who cares? Their high-priority teammate is already staring at a death recap. The time to focus you down and kill you has already passed - you're no longer a threat because you're on cooldown. Yes, if left alone, your basic rotation will come back up and you can contribute another batch of damage, but how often do teamfights last 10+ seconds?

The item isn't appealing because none of the stats are really desirable. If you're a squishy nuker like Viegar or Annie, 300 health isn't really anything exciting - you're still squishy as hell and easy to blow up. The 20% CDR is likely to be in excess given the popularity of items like Athenes (20%), Morellonomicon (20%), and DFG (10%), as well as the tendancy for these kinds of champions to wear blue buff (20%), drink Elixers (10%), and have at least 4 points in sorcery (4%). So while the CDR isn't a bad stat, its not a reason to buy the item. The MR isn't very exciting either, since it offers only 5 more than Grail, and an equal amount to Abyssal Scepter. It upgrades from QSS, but none of the stats it offers are really exciting, or help the champions that you want to buy this item do what they do - nuke - so its a largely wasted upgrade.