Talk:Katarina/@comment-26359415-20150606174555/@comment-9705522-20150609194258

Uh, just to make sure, are you actually talking about Katarina? Because nothing you said is true for Katarina. In order. "So much fun getting killed before you react", well, thats something every assassin can do. Except for Katarina, Kha'Zix, and Ekko (unless you walk into his hologram).

Ironically enough, yeah, Katarina is one of the few examples of Assassins who CANT kill you before you can react. Dont believe me? Compare her damage numbers to Leblancs. To put it simple, unless you let Katarina spin for a while (at least 1.5 seconds if not more), which is more than enough time to react, you are not going to be killed by her. Of course, if she is sufficiently fed, she probably can. As can just about every single mage, assassin, and most bruisers. Its being fed.

"still annihilate everything", ok, fun fact. If you stop Katarina in the minimum time that is possible for the average human (actually, the minimum time would even be a little bit lower, but I compensate for mousclicking with terrible mouses), 0.5 seconds, she will need about 4 resets to just be as good as a simple AoE mages. You got that right. In order to actually be useful after her ult is stopped, Katarinas team needs to be winning anyway. At which point it doesnt even matter.

Thats the beauty of Katarinas kit. So much damage is loaded into her ultimate, a channeled, obvious spell that you can stop with any hard CC (of which this game has a LOT), that, if you react properly and stop her, you essentially shut her down. She will still deal damage with resets, but she will be a disadvantage for her team. And in order for her to be as useful, her team needs to have won the fight with a disadvantage, at which point Katarina was not an important factor.

To put it bluntly, Katarina can single handedly win teamfights. You can also singlehandedly stop Katarina and make her subpar. Now if she was Annie, the difference is that, while she wont do as much damage as Katarina in best case scenario, just by using her combo she will do more damage than Katarina will with several resets. And thats not even mentioning the bears aura or Annies low cooldowns.