Talk:Katarina/@comment-26035414-20171217124539/@comment-33172118-20171218091237

Exactly this. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Katarina is one of the most toxic designs in the game currently. She combines a handful specialists strenghts into becoming near impossible to deal with. Some champions have a few of these spearsheads that are required to have you adapt to, some have questionably many like Leblanc as said by Danz:

>Extremely strong single target nuke

>Very easy escape, high mobility

>Strong in lane

>Strong ganker

But Kata is so much worse, Katarina combines even more of these specialities in a single kit:

>Extremely strong single target nuke

>Very easy escape, high mobility(not nearly as good as Leblanc tho, but in teamfights/lane there's always a target to blink to)

>Strong in lane

>No manacost

>Strong ganker

>Extraordinary teamfight presence with almost full AoE damage

>Extraordinarily good at carrying

>Very good at *consistently* avoiding skillshots

>Very good scaling into lategame

>Benefits from almost all items including the Hextech gunblade for an earlier powerspike

>Unparalleled pentakill potential

Katarina does it all. And if Kata wins a single fight getting something like a double or triple kill you bet your ass the rest of the game she is either going to be focussed with EVERYTHING you have or she'll destroy your whole team effortlessly. She simply does too much. No real surprise literally everyone considers her a top midlaner atm