Originally Posted by ShadowWolf0189

Why did Riot go for sustained damage on an in-and-out assassin like Katarina?

Originally Posted by Drevarius

Yeah you are on target here - W is meant to add sustained damage but not a lot more early game burst. Auto attack + W spam should assist Katarina in longer engagements where she previously was just waiting for Q/E to come back up.

Originally Posted by Drevarius

Don't worry, I just went 15/1/5 in a PBE game

Originally Posted by ShadowWolf0189

Why did Riot go for sustained damage on an in-and-out assassin like Katarina?

Originally Posted by Xx iMid xX

But in a normal team fight, they kill Kat first because of her ultimate. Happens in the actual Kat, and will happen in the new Kat. So spamming "w"... I don't think is a fair exchange for the old kat.

Originally Posted by Drevarius

Assassins are tricky to play well - high risk vs. high reward. If you are caught out of position or you initiate as Kat against a well prepared enemy team you will need to change your strategy.

At the point where you know your combo can net you a kill/assist, you want to tear into the enemy team as quickly and brutally as possible so you can ult and chain multiple Q/W combo's on the enemy team which amounts to quite a lot of AoE damage.

Originally Posted by Ur little sister

Any word on adjustments to the less burstyness (the requirement to cast Q before your ult means you can't pull your ult off against a laner who actually has positioning, unless you go EWQR or EQWR, which gives them the Q cast time as extra reaction time. This has utterly destroyed a couple of matchups, and just feels terrible on what I'm guessing is meant to be a burst assassin)?
A suggestion could be removing Q casting time (This would allow her to actually harass a handful ennemy laners, which you might be trying to avoid in the remake. Though if it turns out to be too much you could just shift more of the damage into the proc?)

Or possibly buffing her by removing healing reduction from her kit, so her ult at least doesn't have those visual indicators anymore? Because setting up ambushes used to be kind of fun.

Also, I'm making this arguement to non-riot employees, so it might be hypocrit not to make it towards you: how is stomping a game where most people are either lvl 5 summoners, or actually testing stupid stuff out like building attack speed Katarina to see if her attack animation doesn't screw up reassuring towards her viability?
The games I've played against whoever I deemed to actually be competent mid players have all so far shown that Katarina's lane matchups all got severely nerfed atm.