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Keep in mind that this analysis is based on Katarina play at 2634 Elo, I have no idea how she is played at lower elo. As for experience I have 1005 ranked games with her this season at a 57% win ratio and a KDR of 7.9/4.2/5.3. If you include normal games and ranked games season one I can easily pass 3000 Katarina games in total. Below is my analysis, there is a TLR at the bottom.

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ANALYSIS:

Summary: Overall what occurred is that they unintentionally nerfed Katarina's early game and mid game and buffed her late game and farming power. The nerfs to early game include her inability to harass the enemy with Q + W during early game lane phase without any repercussions. This puts her at the mercy of champions who simply counter Katarina (which is basically 80% of the current champion base and still growing).

They increased her trading potential with a higher ap ratio and a new added skill. But because of the shunpo nerf there is little reason to be willing to go all in and trade with the enemy unless you can guarantee that the enemy will not gank you, and that you will win the trade. These risks are what make the increased damage output pointless for early game.

Another unintended nerf to early/mid game is the change on her ult. During these times in the game fights usually consist of a 1v1 to a 3v3, there is usually minimal CC, and good players can bait out all of the CC and go in with a fully channeled Katarina ult (or atleast longer than 2 seconds). Now that Katarina is limited to only 2 seconds on her ult, she actually is weaker overall if you consider that lost second of damage. I've personally noted that I've missed 1-2 kills atleast per game simply because my ult doesn't last long enough for me to finish them off.

The final nerf to Katarina is the increased CD on E, as I said before there is little reason to max E first, which means that you'll be stuck with a 14 second Cd (without cdr) shunpo for the better half of the game. This limits the risks that you can take as kat early-mid game simply because you no longer have a reliable escape skill (the 1 second speed increase on W with a 4 second cd does not make up for being able to ward hop over a wall or cover 700 distance).

The buff to the late game consists of two things, her new W skill lets her farm much better, she can farm camps with minimal damage taken in return. Late game her W + Q + 1 Auto attack can clear an entire creep wave in no time. The other buff is her damage ouput in team fights, her new E + W + Q combo has mathematically a better overall ratio than the old E + Q combo. In addition W is a aoe spell now, so she is now even moreso, a monster in team fights if she can get her reset off.

Skill Changes: Ult (Death Lotus) The ult change, though intended as a buff, was in fact a nerf. One of the things that makes me potent in 1v1 is drawing out the enemy cc, then forcing them to take a full duration full damage ult. I miss atleast 1 - 2 kills a game simply because I no longer deal as much damage with my fully channeled ult. In addition the "buff" was minimal if you compare the numbers.

Skill Changes: Q (Bouncing Blades) The Q change I believe is again, another unintended nerf. Two things about Q make it a nerf, the first is that you no longer have maximum damage with each dagger, that means that if you are smart enough to get a dagger to bounce off of your enemy, the damage is minimal and pointless. The second is that they made it so that the daggers bounce to the nearest target, that makes it even harder (ironically) to land it on the enemy. The old Q allowed you to throw a blade onto the creep wave, and if you were lucky it would bounce onto the enemy. Think of it this way, I'd very much rather have a Q deal max damage on a random bounce toward the enemy than having to cast the same Q 4 times to deal the same amount of damage. Being able to harass the enemy from afar with a random Q bounce is what gave Katarina an edge over the enemies that countered her (I faced a Leblanc, and was destroyed by her simply because I could no longer whittle her hp down from afar). Not to mention that being able to reduce people's healing with just a simple q and w from afar was very nice when facing enemies that stacked health pots or had lots of healing abilities. One thing that they changed is that Q has a longer range now, that's to make up for the lower damage output and make it easier to land Q's directly on the enemy. But if I'm in range to throw Q's onto the enemy, they're in range to harass me back. Not only that, but the new Q by itself deals much less damage than the old Q by itself, in order to maximize your Q damage output you have to jump on them with shunpo (extremely risky at high level play where the jungler can pop out and gank you) or get in range of them with your W, which makes it even easier for the enemy to retaliate and deal return damage.

Skill Changes: E (Shunpo) The E change is also a nerf, they severely decreased damage output and increased cooldown at early levels, only to justify it with a 20% damage reduction. At late game the cooldown returns to a normal lower cd but you still sacrifice damage for damage reduction. One of the reasons why this is overall a nerf is simply because of the high cooldown early game. There is no reason to max E first over W and Q if you want to farm and deal damage which is essentially the only thing that kat brings to the table. By increasing the E cooldown, what they have done is forced players to choose their battles wisely, if a katarina uses her E, she cannot escape, she has a 14 second cooldown escape skill now. If she goes in two things must happen for Katarina to benefit from using her E, either she must be able to kill the enemy, or the enemy has to run away to avoid taking more damage. In both situations Kat must win any form of exchange if she wishes to use her E and has to guarantee that the enemy doesn't have a teammate lying in wait to gank. Another issue by changing E is that Katarina has a much more difficult time chasing and running away from the enemy. What Riot has done is give us even less reason to use her E.

Skill Changes: W (Killer instincts?) The W change is the only redeeming factor in this entire change. I can easily farm wave after wave with my W assuming that I don't have the enemy on my tail keeping me away from my creep. Also taking jungle camps are so much easier as well, I can hit 200 creep at 20 minutes about once every four or five games, now I can probably do it atleast once every 2-3 games with this change. The new W is what they added to make up for what you lose with the changes to her ult, Q, and E. In response to the ult "nerf" this new spammable aoe is a monster in team fights, she now is a much larger threat in grouped up team fights at late game. She can toss a Q into the enemy, and proceed to blow everyone up with a short timed ult and a w to clean up. A simple Q + W combo makes up for the old Q + E in terms of damage, the primary difference is the range needed to accomplish the same thing, you have to be about 300 range next to your enemy in order to use W, with the old combo all you need is a 700 range distance from your enemy for a E + Q. If you add E into the mix after every reset (we're assuming that this is mid-late game since team fights are occuring which means that your E has atleast a couple levels in it), then her damage output without her ult is ridiculous if she can get resets off. Unfortunately the 1 second speed boost from W does not make up for losing the ability to escape and chase with a low cd E.

Skill Change: Passive (Voracity) The passive is of course a nerf, the only 2 things to be noted from this change is that you lose the gold gain passive, and you can no longer reliably cast ults twice in a team fight (assuming that you don't build CDR which is something I do not do.)

TL;DR: Nerfed early game and mid game, buffed late game.

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