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Katarina Guide
AD Kat, Poking to Victory
Man this build is totaly wrong Katharina is played at AP not DPS so buy items for AP if you wanna be legendary your ultymate will not do anyhing with this build or any other spell.
Do you know what you're saying? DPS items include AS, crit, AD while this build has only base-AD items. She needs this AD base to scale-off of her skills, not to deal damage with AA, you smarthead. As I said last post, both AD & AP builds are good, both are bad, it's just up to how the summoner likes to play.
Man this build is totaly wrong Katharina is played at AP not DPS so buy items for AP if you wanna be legendary your ultymate will not do anyhing with this build or any other spell.
i bet Katharina is only AP, but this is a build for KATARINA so good one.
But AD :(
Although AD is viable for the larger bonus damage ratio on your Bouncing Blade and ulti, Shunpo in my opinion is a much worthier ability to improve. Also, think of this: With a full build for Kat, AP vs AD, you can get around double the amount of AP than AD for a similar gold cost.
Here's the math to that. I took my More Tanky Enemies Item Build, total gold cost around 14600 (everything minus the pots), which, NOT including masteries, adds 760.5 bonus AP with full Mejai Stacks. With my mastery setup, you will get 805.5216 bonus AP. The only difference gold and AP wise between my More Tanky Enemies Item Build and my More Squishy Enemies Item Build is that the latter costs around 1300 more gold and yields around 10 more AP.
Then I took a full on AD build for Kat, courtesy of HeAt (Katarina - Attack Damage Style). Not including pots, the total gold cost is around 16200. Without the masteries, 405 bonus AD is gained with full Occult stacks and full Bloodthirster bonus AD (max 40 per Bloodthirster). With masteries, this bonus AD is increased to 408.
That's almost double the amount of AP than AD for slightly less gold, and the AP:AD bonus damage ratio for both Bouncing Blade and her ulti is 1:2 (double the amount of bonus damage from total AD than from total AP) (exception for Bouncing Blades, AD adds slightly more than double AP: 0.35:0.8) (+0.35 of total AP and +0.8 of total AD for Bouncing Blade and +0.25 of total AP and +0.5 of total AD for Death Lotus). This means that in the same amount of time, since one unit of AP is cheaper than one unit of AD, you will get around the same bonus damage add-on with both your Bouncing Blade and ulti. So, although people think AD will make your Bouncing Blade and ulti more powerful than AP, in essence, you are gaining the same amount of bonus damage, only difference being your standard attack and only a little less damage on your Bouncing Blades. Think about it: with 800 AP it would deal +280 damage, with 400 AD +320. That means you are ditching Shunpo's nuking ability for around 40 more damage on the INITIAL hit of the Bouncing Blade, which has a higher cooldown than Shunpo and less range. Cmon.
Which leaves Shunpo . If you are building Kat AD, you are not adding any damage to your Shunpo. And, as explained above, you get around the same bonus damage on your Q and ulti in the same time frame with both AD and AP. So, why leave Shunpo all alone? Below you will find a whole section on Shunpo, one of my favorite abilites in League of Legends.
And in case you are curious as to why I am not talking about Kat's W, Killer Instincts, in this section, it is because AP and AD both have no effect on it. It only adds a base benefit, which will be described below.
AP does mathematically prove to be more gold-effective, however AD IS still viable, don't get me wrong.
And if you have to go AD, this seems like a nice way to do it :)
AD Kat is a total mistake... 10x less dmg than AP...
Also, Amumu's ult doesn't cancel Katarina's ult, it just prevents movement and using new skills, so the ones already being activated are not stopped...
Amumu is on the watch list moreso because of his
also good one on downvoting because this isn't an AP build.
More importantly, thanks for the feedback stingray : ]
but in my experience hybrid is always best
Also, Amumu's ult doesn't cancel Katarina's ult, it just prevents movement and using new skills, so the ones already being activated are not stopped...
+1 Anyways, I play AD Kata similarly