Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Katarina, the "what's so special" champion

Honestly I don't understand how people are so great as her. I mean yeah, her ult is good, but there are so many things that block it. Like seriously stun, silence, suppress, and moving her will stop it. But that's just me I guess. A lot of people play pretty good as her. But I don't like her. Whatever...

So her passive is called Voracity. Every time she gets a kill or assist, her cooldowns are all reduced by 15 seconds. Which pretty much means all her abilities finish their cooldowns besides possibly her ultimate.

Katarina's Q is called Bouncing Blades. Katarina throws a blade at her enemies, which bounces between 4 different enemies. Something you may not know is that each time it bounces, it deals 10% less damage to the enemy it hits. When the blade hits you, it marks you for a little bit. If katarina hits you with her basic attack, it consumes the mark and deals bonus magic damage. The ability itself already deals magic damage to you.

Her W is called Sinister Steel. Katarina spins around with her blades, dealing damage in a circle around her. If it hits an enemy champion, Katarina gains movement speed for 1 second. This ability gains damage with a combination of both AP and physical damage, giving her an edge if she gets hextech gunblade.

Her E is called Shunpo. Katarina teleports to a target (friendly or enemy). If the target is an enemy, it deals magic damage. FUN FACT: After teleporting, katarina takes 15% less damage for some time. in this case, you may want to avoid chasing her unless you know you can deal enough damage to still kill her.

Her ultimate is pretty annoying for everyone. It's called Death Lotus. This ability deals damage to the 3 closest enemy champions to her over 2 seconds. It doesn't split the damage between them. If she gets moved, stunned, suppressed, or silenced, the ability stops working. If the enemies move far enough away, she just spins around for a couple seconds like an idiot. If you're playing as Katarina, the ability has a fail safe that won't let you activate it unless you're close enough to at least one enemy champion. Death Lotus deals damaged based on a combination of AP and physical damage, just like Sinister Steel does.

For her build I'd say the item guide has it just about right. I'd suggest building kaga's Lucky Pick early, for some extra gold. Otherwise, build magic penetration items such as sorcerer's shoes, blackfire torch, void staff, and abyssal sceptre. Also build some AP items like wooglet's witchcap and hextech gunblade.

This build is good because it gives spell vamp and cooldown reduction, along with about 500-600 AP. She also has a decent amount of attack damage tacked onto that as well.

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