Talk:Katarina/@comment-98.246.142.57-20120402212335/@comment-50.103.4.101-20120405221613

Ahri has hard counters to her combo and laning. Unless Kat is harassing relentlessly with Shunpo+Sheen (or some other such burst), she isn't going to be doing much to Ahri before laning ends. And using Shunpo as Harass is both weak and very risky vs anyone with decent reflexes.

Kat's ONE strength over Ahri is that she's manaless, and has no cap to laning time apart from health (which is the standard for zoning anyway). Apart from that, Kat is going to be horrible in lane since she's just outranged and outgunned throughout all of laning phase. Orb punishes Shunpo, Fox-Fire punishes you no matter WHAT you do.

Once Ahri gets her ultimate, Kat's chances of landing Shunpo-Death Lotus on her drop to near-zero, and she will most likely get a free kill while you're standing there (Orb loves targets that suppress themselves).

So no. Kat is not a counter to Ahri. It's quite the opposite. Kat gets zoned by Ahri unless the Ahri is playing like a complete retard.

Kat's laning is horrible and for teamfights, she needs a hard initiator to ensure she does her job. If Kat gets someone with hard CC to roam and push with her, Kat is much much better. Which is the main real reason she's played at High ELO at all. Team synergy done by people who know how to trade tricks and CC. For pubs and low-mid Ranked, Katarina is usually a burden or a liability.