Talk:Katarina/@comment-207.99.246.250-20130304225300/@comment-66.222.188.19-20130310194648

Even though Katarina is an assassin, she's not a conventional one like Kha'zix or Zed: her early laning phase is much weaker, and she can hyper-carry even in teamfights. She's AoE mostly instead of single-target as well. Because of that, you really want to make sure you don't get shut down early game. So unless you are VERY confident in your skills I'd go defensive.

My personal build would be 9/10/11 or 9/9/12, same ones I take on Kennen. You get the spell pen (one of the best things in the offensive tree), tankiness, and spell vamp from the utility tree to add more stating power.