Talk:Katarina/@comment-31.205.33.240-20120310103102

AD kata > AP kata Why? The ratios are better. Both for her Q and R. Sure AP will help your E but still the ratios are not to be ignored? Why not? Scaling. AD will only get you so far. Once you hit the 300 AD roof you're done. AP can get up to 600 and will therefore benefit more. Why? You're not a useless cooldown champ you just runs around then you have everything down. Sure her cd's are low and are your passive is designed to help but having a 300 AA will substantially help you to get that passive to trigger faster. Why not? She has horrible AS and no steroid to compensate for it. Building AS+AD on her will diminish her total damage output from her skills which benefit from AD so it's not advised. Why? It's just more fun. No seriously. Furthermore your early game is better due to getting to the AD cap faster than AP. Why not? Despite being AD your skills will not benefit from ArP and they only do magic damage instead. Overall AD build is totally viable on her and on many situations I had more success with it rather than AP. The problem with AP is getting to that sweet spot were you do some decent damage with your skills. AD makes your mid game amazingly good and adds a more punch with your powerful auto attacks. Very late game AP kata scales as bad as AD kata if they start stacking MR so playing AD is the better way to go. Build: Almost any boots you want (except tabi/swiftness/mobility, ionian will help your CDR, mercs for some tenacity, zergs if you play with AS runes for some AA punch)/bloodthirsters/gunblade (fits perfectly in this build too), atmogs for tankiness if necessary. IE is optional and fits AS build but this will have a negative effect on your skills. One extra perk for AD kata is that she doesn't care about armor stacking opponents if they keep their MR low and you don't go for AS AA build. Go ahead and give it a try.