Talk:Katarina/@comment-31212175-20170202133639/@comment-24496127-20170208013802

Jumping around with shunpo resets and chaining kills is what Katarina was in my opinion. That was preserved, and enhanced. Less delibrate in her combos feels like a way of saying she has more to do. Old Kat was just wait for an oppertunity, then burn everything and hope. I mean, yeah, it's delibrate, but more for lack of something else to do than because it was a focused kit.

I'd say that her identity was hurt because she lost straight up burst power, but against squishy things she functions about the same, and shes just straight up better in a sustained fight against tanks/bruisers.

She was always meant to be the aoe assassin. Hpowever, her old kit forced her into a primary single target burster first due to the value of a reset. The optimal thing to do wasn't get a death lotus channel off, but rather to kill something then sweep the fight. Since she's no longer 100% reliant on a reset to be useful, she lost some of the old Kat feel, but only because the way she ended up feeling later in the games life wasn't exactly the way she was intended to feel...if that makes sense?