Talk:Katarina/@comment-77.46.247.96-20120731193157/@comment-41.153.174.150-20120805031254

Darius is a pretty situational pick, off the top of my head, yorick, nidalee, renekton, rumble, even teemo would be able to beat him in lane just by kiting him around. He also has 0 escapes so if he gets ganked twice by the enemy jungler early game you're pretty much shut down for the next 20 minutes.

Katarina is also a very high risk - high reward champion. Assuming equal skill level, you can't win laning phase and you will have to fight for each CS, and you will probably be the most focused targets in teamfights. Kat is all about knowing when to go in so you can get maximum damage from your ultimate and passive, you can't initiate with her because you'll just get killed in 2 seconds. Most people will flame you if you pick katarina, and even if you do well they will blame every single loss on you for picking her. I can't remember the last time I got a "gj kat" for doing something right, most of them go "nice ks kat" :(