r/KatarinaMains

all ideas are appreciated.

The item overall is rather weak for most champions, but since Katarina is one of the best on-hitters in the game, it's already amazing for her (not just AD, it actually has good stats even when you're AP, unless you're burst).

But it's about to get stat on-hit scaling, +10% AP and +10% bonus AD. It will almost double its on-hit in mid game.

I think AD Kata will jump in win rate considerably.

Thoughts?

Settle an argument for me. Is kat better at teamfighting or skirmishing? She is strong at both, but where would you give the edge?

Title. Any idea if they're working on fixing it, or...?

Surprised this hasn't been posted here it genuinely looks like played by a program.

Hey guys, I've been contemplating my decision for both my runes and summoner spells recently, because I feel like they could be hindering my ability to snowball.

For reference I'm currently Emerald but I've been struggling in my Katarina games, I am an AP Kat almost exclusively player running electrocute, but I use resolve secondary and also flash/tp as my sums. I use resolve for the extra sustain in ranged matchups, and teleport also to both teleport back to lane early or for rotations.

However, I'm wondering if I'm losing a lot of value from not taking triumph/coup as my secondary runes because I'm choosing to play safer instead of more aggressive? Same with ignite instead of TP, I feel perhaps my rune/sum choices are too passive and I'm not snowballing early enough? Wondering if it's also just a confidence thing because I've been playing too safe, and need the aggression to win lane earlier and take control of my games hence also taking more aggressive runes/sums? I could see TP still being viable for rotations and kill opportunities though.

What runes/sums are you guys taking? Is it even worth taking resolve anymore?

Kat is really really good into the right bot match up. I’ve been having a lot of fun and success playing her AD on bot alongside a high damage mage or an engage support.

What’s been your experience running her botside?

ı think riot is doing amazing job with katarina in league classic e trai is gone base animation is good, they fixed w inconsistency. they are doing a really good job fixing a lot of problems props to them

this is the only skin i dont have, just because i dont played the game the time it came... when? 😭😭😭😭😭

Hi guys, I’m a Brand/Shaco player and I’m trying to learn Katarina, I watched some videos about macro, combos, builds and etc but I have this enormous fear of playing it in ranked because I don’t want to troll/feed and end up screwing my team if I die early on don’t roam correctly.

Do you have any tips to overcome this?

So, I'd like to address the elephant in the rift: Katarina is visually in a very bad state right now.

As all of you know, Katarina got updated to her V2 version (2012-2016) due to popular demand where she has her Sinister Steel as her W on PBE for League Classic.

There's just a slight issue that this brings with it.

I'm gonna start with her visuals~

--------- Kat V1's Classic (default) model and portrait/splash art ----------

Katarina's current \"classic default\" skin and model

This model is the one chosen to represent Katarina in League Classic and this just doesn't feel right simply for this very one good reason:

She got a visual update in 2012 together with her gameplay rework (Sinister Steel on her W) and has been using her same model ever since.

While they brought back her old VFX from 2012-2016 (thank you so much for that), for some reason they still kept her V1 model (maybe for nostalgia's sake), but it just does not fit her iteration at all.

It makes more sense to keep her as the same model as she has today, but with the old animation cycle that she had between 2012-2018 (walking, etc.).

Katarina's model since 2012 (same mesh and textures ever since)

Her portrait and splash art also needs to be updated to match her V2 Kat version.

Katarina's portrait during her 2012-2015 era

--------- Kat v2's current VFX and SFX ----------

Her classic (default) skin has all of her v2's SFX, which is great. However, her Mercenary skin lacks that and is using her v3 SFX instead. This needs to be fixed as all of her classic skins (up to project and with the exception of Slay Belle, that have their own SFX) use her base SFX.

Current Katarina's Bouncing Blades (Q) VFX

Current Katarina's Sinister Steel (W) VFX

Classic Katarina and Mercenary Katarina - Sinister Steel VFX and SFX comparison

https://reddit.com/link/1v05ipm/video/wbxo6oia2ceh1/player

I could hear at least 3 variants on Classic Katarina's SFX for Sinister Steel (probably with a 33% cast chance) while I heard the same sound for Mercenary Kat...

The Shunpo red trail of v3 Kat (rework from 2016) was also kept for some reason.

Current Katarina's Shunpo (E) VFX

Please... PLEASE get rid of this shunpo red trail!

I understand that this is for "readability" and "visual clarity" purposes, but that red trail belongs to Kat V3 (2016 rework) VFX and she didn't offer that "readability" and "visual clarity" back then at all.

Same goes for most other champ vfx's, if we have Anivia's Q (Check Sirhaian's video on twitter for reference - can't send links in here) looking smaller than its hitbox, then we should keep it fair and consistent with all other champions.

Not to mention that we need to keep it accurate to the source material. She never had it, therefore it makes no sense to keep it.

--------- Final considerations ----------

It's crazy how much effort Rioters are putting into this mode and I thank you all big time for that. Moreso that you're listening to feedback from players. Keep up the good work.

What we'd really want is a true real experience of V2 Kat's iteration and not some amalgamation/mashup of her V1 model with season 3's vfx and sfx mashed together with modern vfx (shunpo trail)

This is my feedback (for now) on Katarina. I hope that Riot listens to my feedback and bring us an "as accurate as possible" experience of Kat V2 that we all love and care for.

https://preview.redd.it/wp8rdhrnl1eh1.png?width=256&format=png&auto=webp&s=cb13baef70627c8f2a365045efb241a33f4b3966