Talk:Katarina/@comment-24082086-20170412102652/@comment-26808509-20170416153041

Actually she is still very snowbally. And her damage didn't change either. The only thing they did to her is limiting her early game power by increasing the window of punishment during the early phases in lane and during the midgame, but that's it. Her potential to oneshot people in AoE and demolish teamfights is still there and that's why you should want to pick her. Till now she was pretty much ahaead of any other Assassin, because she had the damage, the mobility, the laningphase and even in late game she was better than every other Assassin because of her teamfight potential (late game mostly is the phase Assassins are weak at, because of grouping enemy teams). Her early game was too potent and too easy to handle for her strength in the later stages of the game. That's why they weakened it.

Or no, I wouldn't even say that. It's not weaker, not at all. Her damage and her snowball potential didn't change. It's just harder to achive something, because you can be punished more easily, even if you start to snowball early.