Talk:Katarina/Strategy/@comment-78.57.134.223-20110623143434

I could talk and talk about katarina for hours, this is one champ i know best in LoL. First of all starting with doran's shield is wrong, very wrong, you are generally wasting 200+ g (gold you loose when selling it) on an item that gives you only minor advantages, the way to play katarina is being aggressive and that's why you need boots. You need to get in, throw a knife and get out before your adversary backs away or gets a chance to harass you, even if he does land a shot on you 3 health pots will patch you up nicely, and with boots and MS mastery its easy (plus if you go deep enough into utility tree you get CDR witch coupled with offensive tree CDR and runes lets you harass quite often). Secondly never ever forgo midlane for a sidelane. Kata needs good farm to be effective, and there are very few champs who can stand their ground against Kata in mid, add to that the fact that Kada is ungankable once she has her shunpo and is aware of her surroundings. Most ppl have to back away and heal up in the fountain atleast once before lvl6, meanwhile, if all is going the usual way, i only have to back at lvl 9-11. Third: Gunblade is bad. Why the hell would you want lifesteal? If you're autoattacking, you're doing it wrong, a Will of the ancients will benefit you way more than a gunblade. I usualy build like this, feel free to try and tell how it went. Boots>Needlessly large rod>Rylai's>Sorc's shoes>Rabadon's>Abysal scepter (or smth with armor if there are no casters)>will of the ancients. Ofc the build or the order varies depending on enemy team (i wouldn't buy a Needlessly... and get a Mejay's after Rylai's if there are very little or none hard CC on enemy team. Or if they are heavy on CC id try to get a banshees as my 3rd or 4th item instead of Abysal). Maybe ill add smth more later if i feel like it ;)