Talk:Katarina/@comment-24621775-20150526012829/@comment-9705522-20150526233835

Katarina is far from OP. Especially in this Meta, which is by far the worst meta for her (Which considering that pretty much every meta lately had 3-5 ways of stopping her ult per team on average says a lot).

The trick behind Katarina is threefold. One, her laning sucks. Not even "its slightly bad", im talking "basically an auto-lose where you wont be able to get a lot CS against most mid laners". In a way like Fizz. She has the advantage of being manaless, but runs out of health fast, which, thanks to her low health regen and low HP values makes her an easy target for autoattacks. Her ranged farming and waveclear are also both pretty weak.

Two. She needs to get ahead. This is true for every assassin in a way, but thanks to her low base damage values, its even moreso true for Katarina. However, getting ahead is difficult. If your enemy knows what they are doing mid, that wont be a way of getting ahead. So, that leaves top and Bot. But thats also a problem, as Katarinas damage is low until she gets items, which she needs to get ahead in order to get. Also, her ganks are not very impressive, thanks to said low damage and complete lack of CC (and relatively low range of engage).

Three. She completely relies on her ult. If you stop her ult at the minimum level that is possible for the average human with a 200 ping (which is 0.5 seconds), she will need roughly 4 resets to actually be on par with other AoE mages. Which means that in order to be as useful as said mages, her team needs to be winning anyway, which means her contribution was basically pointless.

She has the potential to be a lot better than those other mages (if she gets a sufficiently long ult). But likewise she has the potential to be a lot worse (ccd after 0.5 seconds and killed instantly, causing her to likely be less useful damage wise than the support). What makes this even fairer is how likely those are. The chance of her being better are low. It requires setup (such as AoE CC on the enemy), lots of enemy mistakes and terrible enemy positioning. The chance of her being worse are very high. It just requires one person to react at an adequate level with hard CC. Both of these are easily achieved.

So yeah, Kat isnt OP in any way. Especially not in this Meta, but even in others she wouldnt be, because the ways to stop her are too easy, and for her to get going is hard.