Katarina Build Guide by wRAthoFVuLK

1k votes! woo!

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Congratulations on the 1k!! :DD

Anyways, It seems like a good guide, and I am going to try it out and lets see what happens.
Even though I am not the biggest Kata fan :)

-Taneren. +1

I do not suppose you could do me a favour and check out my Taric guide, maybe vote and tell me what you think about it?

Congrats on 1k votes :D

Initiator

Thanks to The_Nameless_Bard for the sig

Katarina Guide

I really liked the guide, but due to a few games where we had a lack of tanks, I twisted the build a little depending on AD or AP, and it kind of turned out really amusing. By the end of the game if I died a few times, I started getting better at getting in and out of fights for assists or kills quickly without dying, usually assists because some people are good at last hitting while I'm twirling in my ult, which really didn't bother me. Both games by end game I was around 14+ stacks on my Leviathan and Mejai. If there was a bit of AP, I'd get an Abyssal Scepter, and if it was AD heavy, I'd purchase a Randuin's Omen. This is a screenshot of how it's turned out for two of my games, between weeding out games where other lanes have fed and ruined it, but if my team is decent, I usually turn out doing really well.

http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/473/katk.png

With that build I was ending games around 3.5K health, give or take, and I felt fairly off-tanky. I could leap in without taking much damage and still deal quite a bit of damage leaving people on the run.

thanks guys!

and sure thing Tan, I'll have a look!

@Kuso,
yea, I guess it can work. lol.

@Kwee,

nice scores! unfortunately, since they are a bit different from my build, I will not be posting them up.

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Made a penta with this ! <3 love it XD

Nice!

Nice guide! first champion i really like.
1 question, why dont you use the CDR seals aswell? (im still lvl 10, so i can only use tier 2 runes)

don't buy runes until level 20.

and, seals have a reduced effect on CDR, just use the runes in the guide :P

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It's a good build. However, I'd like to point out that if you use 9 of the CDR glyphs (perlvl or flat) then you will exceed the CDR cap by end game, making some of them useless. Lucidity(15%), Sorcery(4%), and Enlightenment(8.1% by lvl 18) adds up to 27.1% CDR. With 9 flat CDR glyphs, this becomes 32.95%, and by the time you grab an Elixer of Brilliance(10%), it becomes 42.95%, wasting some glyph slots. The same thing happens with CDR perlvl glyphs. My suggestion would be to take only 4 or 5 flat CDR glyphs (or 3 or 4 CDR perlvl glyphs) and use the other 4 or 5 slots for something else, like Greater Glyphs of Force or something.