Talk:Katarina/@comment-25364408-20170218023627/@comment-26808509-20170220230153

Problem is that she can't utelize the passive or secondary effects from most AD items. Death's Dance only heals for physical damage and those view AA's aren't enough to sustain her, Edge of Night and Duskblade have lethality which, again, only help her AA's, same goes for the cleave effect and lifesteal from Hydra and the active sadly can't be used during ult. Also this build scales pretty badly into late game, since she doesn't have any penetrations beside lethality and her spells still deal magic damage. Also, to deal that much damage, she would have to use a lot of AA's and in teamfights no one would give you the time to do that.

In 1v1 scenarios this build may be fantastic, but if someone builds only a little MR or in teamfight's it's way worse than AP Katarina.