Talk:Katarina/@comment-25855686-20161025104502/@comment-9771997-20161107080631

She has a ton of AD scaling in her kit, too bad it's all in magic damage. You would max your Q first going AD, because it spawns a dagger relatively near the enemy champion you want to hit. Why would you ever max W first? Maxed it has Q's starting cd, and 0 damage besides the dagger Q already spawns. I guess you could go in and disengage a little more, but you're also tossing out the 120ish free base damage on Q.

Awhile back Katarinas built Hextech Gunblade, not really sure why they ever stopped tbh, and that's as close as you should ever get to hybrid. Hybrid builds only really work with on-hit effect builds(think Kayle and pre-reversion Kog'maw), and spam champions(think old Ryze). You'd have to pick up AD pen for your autos(the main attraction to AD Katarina since everything scales better with AP, and most AP items naturally have CDR now) to be relevant, and then you'd need magic pen for your abilities to be relevant. Then of course you get punished by Rabadon's and/or IE, because the amp they provide relies on you "maining" a stat. You'd be better off running hybrid pen runes and just going AD crit Katarina. Something like:

Ionian Boots(10% CDR), Statikk Shiv(make use of that hybrid pen and add some burst), IE, Essence Reaver(For cap CDR, AD, and more crit), Last Whisper upgrade and either a Sterak's or Hextech Gunblade; probably the Hextech Gunblade because Sterak's fights with Lord Dominik's Regards.