Talk:Katarina/@comment-4919681-20150701101740/@comment-9705522-20150702202015

Well yeah, Riven doesnt have a great laning phase against rangeds. Keep in mind, laning phase is mostly level 1-5, after that roaming begins. She is melee, her gapclosers are fairly slow and very predictable, and she needs to use them to clear. She also has no way of ranged CS, and if she tries to go for the enemy will push the lane, which as a melee is bad.

Well, yes, Akali also has a bad laning phase (whether its better or worse is up for question though. Id say slightly better, since she can do ranged CS without hitting the others, which can mess her up, and because her cooldowns arent as limited. Also, stealth is powerful in laning). But Swain? His laning phase is decent. Especially with his mana sustain.

Katarinas laning phase is terrible. Her AoE damage is laughable early on. Her waveclear bad. Her harass extremely bad (a single unprocd Q is worse than a single ranged attack. One of these has up to 10 seconds cooldown and is also the main way of CSing, one is only limited by attack speed. You can figure out why her harass is terrible because of this on your own).