Talk:Katarina/@comment-5211662-20160501003324

Why people understimate Kat so much? I mean, yes, she is less effective at higher elos where people know how to CC her or prevent her from snowballing. However, this does not mean she will never snowball. Kat is still a very effective pick against teams with little CC, nor CC, or unreliable CC (with unreliable, I mean CCs like Ahri's charm, which is a difficult skillshot to land). In addition, people always say that she is easy to shut down early, which is on my opinion, easier said than done. This is because she is completely resourceless on her abilities; most champions need to waste mana in order to harass or to outfarm her. Even if you do win against her early, nothing prevents her from roaming. And believe on me, on platinum and above, there are still many people who overextend on bot lane, even if there is a Kat on the enemy team, ready to double kill.

For me it's more that Katarina is a situtional pick, rather than a bad pick.