Katarina can safely be called a hyper-Kerry champion due to a specific set of skills and good snowball potential. She is on a par with leit killers such as Wayne, Irelia, and Jax.
You can dominate your line by not letting her farm, and keep Katarina near her tower, but if a gaping forester or an imprudent botulinum gives her a couple of kilos, the situation will change dramatically for the worse for you. Even with one item for damage, this pretty beast with a scar will frolic throughout your team, sending one champion after another to the fountain. It is very difficult to stop it, the only salvation is objects for magical resistance, which the midder or ADK cannot afford, especially if only 20-30 minutes have passed since the start of the game.
In more detail, we will analyze this very interesting champion and make a small guide on the hero of Katarin: skills, assembly, runes, talents and behavior on the line will be examined in more detail by us. It should be noted right away that it fits any friendly set of champions. The only thing worth paying special attention to is your opponent on the midline. Not the best option to pick a champion against a hero with a lot of control (Morgan, Malzahar, Lux, etc.) or instant burst damage with the ability to complete your attacks (Fizz, Yasuo and other similar LOL participants). Katarina (a guide for the 6th season) is very weak in the early game, so you should not go into trouble - farm and wait for the sixth level or the appearance of a forester.
Abilities
All champion’s abilities are cast without mana costs and are limited only by reload time, which eliminates some expensive items for mid-line magicians, directing their potential only in damage. Katarina has only one remote skill to attack, so if you are a range hero, then you need to farm very carefully and try to throw your Q in time for the last minhit.
Gluttony (passive)
Last year, this skill had more attractive characteristics, but Liga (a guide to Katarina in season 5) is balanced year after year, and now Gluttony has been nerfed, adding a timer from the last kill (3 seconds).
The essence of the passive ability is that the death of one of the enemies instantly reloads Katarina’s main abilities, and this is an indispensable move in team battles. Passivation gives the champion fantastic mobility and the ability to do burst damage in a very small amount of time.
Dancing Blades (Q)
A remote skill that allows you to attack multiple enemies at once. The ability allows more or less safe farming, as well as harassing the enemy during the online phase. It is also worth noting that the skill hangs special marks on opponents (4 seconds), which can be removed either by auto-attack, or by other attacking skills, causing additional damage.
Hyde (Katarina, Season 6) recommends pumping this ability in the first place if you are a range champion. This will not only allow you to quickly get fit, but also keep the enemy at a distance.
Ominous Steel (W)
The ability has a good radius of destruction, and with proper pumping, it also has good damage. Katarina tosses blades around her, inflicting magical damage to nearby enemies. It will also be useful to note that in case of a successful attack by an enemy champion, the hero briefly increases his speed of movement. "Ominous Steel" allows you to inflict damage on the enemy with lightning speed and immediately step aside (do not do this trick with Diana on the line).
Shunpo (E)
This ability provides the champion with fantastic mobility that any League of Legends hero can envy. Katarina (Hyde, Season 6) can use this skill to attack both the enemy and minions.
The main feature of this ability is the ability to "jump" around allied champions and friendly wards, that is, it is easy to change your position during protracted battles or during an escape. Immediately after using the skill, Katarina receives a small bonus to defense, which allows her to prokast an opponent with almost no loss, and in the event of his death to leave the scene with impunity. Hyde to Katarina (season 6) recommends keeping Shunpo in reserve, as this is the only ability to get out of almost any mess more or less intact. If you are not sure that you will kill the enemy and activate the passive, which means that you reset the cooldown to "E", then it is better not to start the cast.
Flower of Death (R)
The champion’s absolute ability has very good damage, and it hurts three targets at once in the radius of defeat. The only minus of the ultimate is that castes can be interrupted by control skills by hanging Silence or Stun on Katarina.
It is also worth noting that the range of the champion’s absolute ability is limited, so the target, as a rule, takes only part of the damage using the escape or Jump skills. The advantages of ultimate include a short recharge time and a very good increase in damage from purchased magic items. Hyde to Katarina recommends using the absolute ability to eliminate Kerry or champions with low health, which will activate a passive ability and continue to sow panic among enemies.
Champion build
The classic spell picking option for any mage on the midline is Ignition and Leap. But if some supermobile champion like Yasuo or Talon is standing against you, then it is better to stop at Exhaustion. This will help not only survive the burst damage, but also slow down the enemy at the time of casting your absolute skill. If there are “thin” champions (Gankplank, Timo, Sona, Sorak, etc.) on the top and in the support, then you can take “Teleport” for even more snowball, but only if you can follow what is happening on the map, otherwise case it will be just useless.
Skill upgrade
Basically, every champion skill is equally good and effective. The order of pumping depends on your style of play and the opponent on the line. As mentioned above, if you are a range champion, then the guide to Katarina recommends starting with Q - this will help you farm and keep the enemy at a distance, and in other cases, you can improve W.
Talents and Runes
The best option for distributing runes will be the classic version for assassin magicians: in fifths, AP damage, in stamps penetration, and the rest fill with armor and AP resistance. As far as talents are concerned, the best option for Katarina would be the “Order of the Thunder Lord”. It goes well with the champion’s core set of skills and will allow you to inflict significant damage on the line.
Some ignore the typical guide to Katarina, adding nankiness to runes and talents, or, on the contrary, invest too much in damage without any protection. Such assemblies either “shoot”, allowing you to quickly get sick, or keep the champion in an extremely disadvantageous position until the late game (much more often).
Items
League of Legends (a guide to Katarina in season 6 is presented to your attention) has significantly reworked all artifacts for assassin magicians. Now the best option for dominating the line is Luden's Echo and Zhonya's Hourglass. The first is collected by default and significantly adds to the champion's movement speed and burst of damage with the passive ability of the item.
Hyde to Katarina recommends first of all to collect Zhonya's Hourglass in case you are facing a strong AD champion like Yasuo, Zed or Talon. The remaining artifacts as necessary: the enemy goes into AP resistance - we collect the “Staff of the Abyss”, the enemy is “thin”, but biting - we go to damage (“Rabadon's Death Hat”). Shoes are best purchased "Arcane" to increase the magic penetration.