Talk:Katarina/@comment-5224716-20150410145454/@comment-3546228-20150410152415

Haunting Guise used to be really popular on her for a while but now people generally don't get it because of how it can delay her Rabadon's. Other items like Rylai, Gunblade etc. are noob traps and do nothing. The CDR items are a waste of gold as well, Kat doesn't need any CDR.

Generally you build her like Ahri - buy all the items one after another, with the order depending on whether you'll need Zhonyas that game. There's really no other right approach - you want to get as much AP on her as fast as possible. Kat can still be very binary and not do anything if she lacks the right amount of damage to get a reset in a teamfight. If you get one kill you'll usually get another, and so on.

There's also the Mejai dilemma - if you're a confident Kat player you'll get this in soloq very frequently, since you're a snowball champion.