Talk:Katarina/@comment-29520068-20161114020543

After playing her for a few games this pre-season, all I can say is that her playstyle now feels odd.

First of all, her damage now feels very delayed because it takes quite some time to set up daggers and   very  unreliable because she's melee and you can't exactly control where the daggers land. All that delay and preparation greatly increases the chances of you dying before your target does because she is an assassin and does not build defensive items.

Second, her scalings are weird. She has AD ratios but deal magic damage entirely. It's normal to build magic penetration on her but how do you utilize those AD ratios? Gunblade is great on her now but after that, what do you build next? AP? AD? It's unclear.

Third, her new Shunpo feels clunky. She looks like she's dashing to her target but it's actually a blink. And I wish she can still Shunpo on wards because she has no method of escaping when there's no target nearby.

All those disadvantages in playing glass-cannon Kat made me play her off-tank now. Gunblade, Rylai's, Liandry's, Visage, Sunfire, and Sorc Shoes is my new build on her now. Running mpen reds, hp per level yellows, scaling cdr blues, and movespeed quints. Thunderlord's Decree is still the keystone for her but sometimes I go Fervor just for the stacking bonus AD (for those juicy AD scalings) and for the laughs. To sum it up, assassin Kat doesn't work that well anymore (imo) and bruiser Kat feels better. You have tankiness to compensate for all that delay in killing your target but you still deal damage since you have some AP items and have mpen. And that ends this wall of text.