Final nail in the coffin
after checking for katarina's stats on a website i looked at the top kat players there and the very first person with +72% win rate played a lot of other champs more than kat and every single kat game was a loss.
it is beyond my understanding why this character is so miserable in lane, i read that katarina's laning phase is weak... its not weak it's pathetic, i can write an entire book for each character in the game and how they just beat you at every stage in the game, and the only people that kat can kill are just turbo noobs who don't hit their abilities and even then they can still kill you sometimes.
i don't want this to be a long rant, so can someone just tell me how to play lane against a few things that happens way too often,
like ad champs (eg zed) who can hit you from outside your range and get the wave almost safely when low hp.
and champs who get vamp cepter and just full heal every wave and when you fight them they just beat the shit out of you and crit two times and kill you (yaso)
and yone, i dodge his q3 and ult and he still kills me somehow
and mages with abilites that go through minions, i usually e behind my minions to avoid damage but i recently played against zoe and that proved to be ineffective .
and melee ap if they hit you by their ranged ability two times you just lose half your health somehow (akali q ) that has no cooldown and when i use my q on her she just heals back more than i deal damage early all while my minions seem to have permenant erectile dysfunction when i'm playing katarina, but if i hit the enemies their minion wave fucks me
there are plenty of champions that i thankfully didn't lane against and hopefully never will but in general i just slowly lose my hp in lane even when playing under my tower and the only time i win is if my opponenet is turbo noob or by some miracle some random fight happens in the river and my team actually goes in resulting in me collecting kills and just killing everyone on repeat later on.
and honestly, with plenty others having burst damage and mobility that isn't so telegraphed and predictable, slows and cc, true dmg, % health / bonus execute dmg, resets, stealth, assassins with far better mobility that is not dependant on variables i'm starting to think, why handicap myself with this character at this point ?