Talk:Katarina/@comment-5266525-20150623083511/@comment-24036535-20150624034342

Can I just point out that Katarina has the highest total burst of any AP assassin, she may be tied with Leblanc, but she has much more AoE damage and resets. You know, a 360% total ratio WITHOUT a Luden's Echo? Her resets allow for even more damage in teamfights.

At the same time, she has literally no utility, her shunpo and MS on W are all she has, otherwise, it's just damage, and channeled damage. Her ult means if she wants most of her damage, she needs to channel for 2.5 seconds, which rarely happens. Now here's the problem: If Kat get's a full ult off, that's enough damage to kill a squishy target ALONE, full combo plus resets and her ult allow her to solo the enemy team if they can't lock her down. But that's the problem, it's not too hard to just put a little CC on Kat, even if it's accidental, and negate her teamfight prescence. Or if your team has no CC, or the enemy has a Morg, all I can say is good luck, you've lost already.

Kat's problem is she has amazing damage, mobility, and AoE, but lacks and way to reliably get it off, and is reliant more on her enemies failing to CC her than she is on her own mechanics. Oh, and a solid 2/3 of her damage is loaded into her ult.