User blog comment:Gnomeco/Katarina - Should be buffed?/@comment-4481326-20140412124936

She's already resourceless, so is only restricted by cooldowns, which are reset (decresed for ult) upon kill or even assist. The key to succesfully playing Katarina is to find a good opportunity to jump in and wreck the enemy. Jump in too early and you get focussed and killed. If a Katarina waits untill the fight is going on and then jumps in, it's hers. She definitely does not need buffs imo. As others have already said, that would make her even more 'feast or famine', with her feast just roflstomping whole teams.

Laning phase just isn't her strong point. There are more champs who have a weak laning phase, but make up for it later on, it's their design. Kata makes up for it as early as level 6 all the way to level 18.