User blog comment:Gnomeco/Katarina - Should be buffed?/@comment-5077844-20140412085947

....I think the problem when buffing Katarina would be that she'll end up as one of those "get fed or die trying" champs, like Akali, Riven, Fiora, and so on. She's a typical snowballing champion (which I personally consider a toxic feature in the game, because it's so boring to play against if you make one mistake), and it's not like she's dependent on her ultimate to make somethinghappen in teamfights. I mean she has her cd resets. The problem with her is that her role is so...obscure. She's a melee magic Assasin, whihc means she suffers from pitiful early laning and farming.

Then again, she only needs her team to engage for her and then clean up. Unless there are champions in the enemy team who actually ahve the ability to intterupt her evne though she gets protected by all of her team, she's fine to go in at a point where all the enemy cc ahs been used. The only countersthat come to my mind right now are Vi and Nautilus ults and those two are delayed which menas, that kata will get off some damage nevertheless.