User blog comment:Gnomeco/Katarina - Should be buffed?/@comment-4888212-20140413113537/@comment-24385282-20140414024043

I believe you missed something

-->She has also difficulties farming in mid.<-- Between level 1 to 5, she only has 3 skills/abilities:
I can't think of a single midlane champion that doesn't either have some ranged yet more spammable ability to help farm or some easy escape from harass after going in to farm if they don't have range. Her only ranged ability has, as Gnomeco said, a high cooldown and can't be used to harass and farm safely or efficiently. Her other ranged ability removes her escape other than an extremely low movement speed buff that only applies if you get in range of an enemy champion. Basically she has the hardest time farming and is near useless unless she gets extremely fed by being very skilled or being up against someone with almost no skill (or just being lucky.) It's almost impossible to farm and extremely hard to get kills on even the squishiest of opponents until very late in the game. Also Yasuo technically can have 6 abilities at level 5.