Talk:Katarina/@comment-217.123.141.44-20120723204421/@comment-69.141.8.150-20120730205747

"Akali can be countered as easily as Kata btw.."

While they are both higher mobility melee AP carry/assassins, Kat tends to be easier to shut down since so much of her team fight threat comes from her ult. Save a stun/disable for that inevitable ult and A LOT of her damage gets taken away.

Meanwhile, Akali relies on her ultimate for closing the gap and tends to be a little more resistant to CC since smokescreen makes her untargetable (even if you do CC her, she'll still auto stealth in smokescreen).

Oracles on your tank tends to counter her reliance on smoke screen but it won't shut her down quite as hard as a stun to Kat's ult.