Yes. You've got far more damage off of Shunpo and blades because of it. I was playing a game tonight (very close game) and the other team was smart enough to move so I wasn't getting a lot of damage off of Death Lotus unless they were slowed/disabled - most of the damage was Shunpo and Blades. Now, I need to work on shunpo->in front and then death lotus, since I never really did that..or at least conciously, I was usually running into danger if I did that though since it was a chase back to towers/other team mates...

Love this hero though, very effective ganker and even late game for team fights can be quite devastating if played right.

The other team had a Kat playing a DPS build with some lifestealing and except for once when I got stun + slowed by another of them, I completely owned her every single time.

Just to be clear, AP does not increase the Bouncing Blades damage.

I personally prefer the DPS Phys Kat. I love to be able to Shunpo> Death Lotus and then mop up the survivors with auto attacks and life steal them. People are like wtf what just happened!?!? Considering that you start with almost 60 Attack Damage and the Death Lotus does 65% of your physical damage I find it easier to get damage faser with the DPS build.

However the insane damage Shunpo's from AP is awesome with the AP build.

Anyone have suggestions for late game with AP build? I manage to do extremely well early and if there is even one carry opposite of me, I just teeter off late game. This is really disappointing when none of my team seems to be a tank or a carry and our team just crashes.

Why you decided to necro a REALLY old thread, I'll never know. Do you queue with a premade or solo? I see you're doing pretty well in the lower brackets.

You just forget that you need about twice the amount of AP for DL to do the same dmg as AD. Also, why oh why don't you take sorcerer's boots? Kat without Magic Pen = ****.

Played the ap build for my first time with kat and it worked very well .

I get the lucky pick then soc boots soulsteal Rylai's then b veil ending with war mong.

Works wonders

Well, I just happen to use Bouncing Blades a lot and it works pretty good for me. My skill build begins with something like Bouncing/Killer/Bouncing/Shunpo/Killer OR Shunpo.Lotus. Once I get that much, I just focus on pumping Shunpo and Killer, with Lotus when I get the chance. Shunpo+Killer is godly. I usually get some nice kills on 1v1 with Killer+Shunpo, then Lotus and, if needed, cancel with Bouncing.

The blades are pretty annoying, so they help pushing the enemy champions, which allows you to farm more, not to mention the extra gold you get from last-hitting minions. Besides, they are VERY useful when you're in the middle of a team battle and you're out of Lotus. When that happens, just get away (preferably by running, if you can. Otherwise, Shunpo) and aim Bouncing Blades at the proper target. If the conditions are appropriate and you do it right, you deal interesting damage to at least 2 targets. Besides, if you saved your Shunpo, you'll be able to use it on the weakest enemy.

Of course, I just began playing this game and I was only a casual at DoTa, but that's what I've been doing for now...and it works