Talk:Katarina/@comment-5000319-20120425023656/@comment-50.103.9.51-20120428183030

Terrible choice. One of the absolute worst champions in the game. Defiinitely try before you buy, though I'd say you shouldn't buy her at all. As an assassin she is terribly outclassed by a number of other champs in every way, with her only real unique point being the potential massive damage on her ultimate.

And to counter Katarina, you only need to counter her ultimate. She just cannot keep pace without it, and Lotus is countered by:

-ANY Stun, Silence, or Displacement Effect

-Any Flash or blink

-Sufficiently higher movespeed (to mitigate)

Her potential damage is quite awesome and that's the appeal in theory, but she won't do much without a hard initiator and going in last (compared to good assassins, who wade into and out of battles picking off squishies).

She needs a team with tight coordination, or an enemy team that lacks sufficient amounts of the above.