Talk:Katarina/@comment-24309189-20140810051018/@comment-25180401-20140812021605

It was certainly not the fastest kat penta I've seen, nor the one with the most skill/best mechanics. The most impressive thing i have to say about it was the fact that she managed it when her team was far behind and she, personally, was about even with the other team. Getting a 1v5 penta is impressive when you're not ahead, no matter what.

However, like Odaswifteye said, the team was pretty cleanup ready. The thing that least impresses me about the penta is not the fact that leona or syndra could have stopped her, (they had their ults down, and an approach that fast makes it hard for them to get their stuns off, since they need time to use them). Instead, it is the fact that Kat got lucky at the end. Irelia had less health than her and managed to get next to her with bladesurge. If not for the miniscule, fraction-of-a-second cast time of equilibrium strike, that could have quickly changed to an impressive triple, rather than a penta. Had Irelia been more aggresive and gone for the stun right after Kat jumped on leona, it may have turned out differently.

But who knows, if the kat was good she likely would have then targeted irelia second, and have gotten a penta anyway. But that doesn't change the fact only because that irelia screwed up, and kat capitalized on it, that this can occur. From my experience, kat pentas come in three types, the flashy ones that happen in a near instant, the tense, highly-skilled ones that happen over time, and the ones in the middle. I only really appluad the second category, since the first all too often is due to kill stealing/securing or being obnoxiously fed, and the third is often due to screwups. This was one of the third. A penta's a penta, though, so all credit to k4tarina, althought to me this  will always outshine his "big play".

But yeah. Nerfs are definitely coming, which makes me sad. The cinematic, this play, and the unusually high playrate (#12) and winrate (#5) of the sinister blade combine to signal incoming trouble for kat mains as attention is drawn to our beloved. Dammit Riot, weren't the DFG nerfs enough?