Talk:Katarina/@comment-25798210-20161122174706/@comment-26808509-20161122210331

A big part of her early damage comes from Shunpo tbh. because her AP scaling on her passive is quite low on the first few levels and her Q damage isn't significant at any point. Shunpo on the other hand has a really good total AD scaling that takes use of her base AD and thus gives the most early damage. Basicly the reason why many chose to put some AD runes in and rush Gunblade. Without it damaging nearby enemies when jumping on a Dagger, she wouldn't deal enough damage to kill a target, even with two or more rotations of her passive. Also on this way it doesn't feel to bad if you jump on a Dagger instead of jumping to a target and it makes procing TL easier.