Please update this.

Duuuude, you make a guide about Katarina and tell people that silencing is the exception that DOESN'T interrupt Death Lotus. Silencing stops it just like stuns, snares, knock-backs, knock-ups, or supresses. The only thing that doesn't interrupt is the slow. Believe me, I know, even though I don't play Katarina(yet) I do have Garen as my main. Every single time I played a against a Katarina on the enemy team I always took great care in saving my Decisive Strike in team-fights, so that I could silence her and save my team's life. This worked very well and usually, any Katarina dumb enough to use her ultimate near me would get roflstomped. Get your facts right...

A good build, providing a lot of damage. I rock with more CDR myself, but I definatly agree with the maxing of bouncing blades first. 3 HP pots lets you deal with the pesky enemies that take heal, especially when mid.
Only thing I can say is the lack of survivability other than HP pots. Against enemy champions with a lot of harrass I end up buying a lot of them, but once the damage starts to roll in it doesnt matter - by the time we have a fight, their at half HP already.

+1

this build is good for naps like me because no mejai is used xD
its cool to learn how to play with kat
early dmg is good as well
+1

i sure dont take banshees and ionian boots but in stead sorcerers and lich bane but the build is awesome.


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is good build

i prefere her with more penetration.. we are not in need of cdr! we got her passive ability.

where is your penetration mate?

Very nice built !!! thx

Personally, I find that there are three ways to play Katarina:
The first two ways are as a three-champ AOE nuke that can
1) deal a load of initial damage to a team of few to no CC's
2) finish the team fight by shunpo'ing in and DL'ing near the end of a fight when CC's are exhausted
OR
3) as an assassin where you can focus on any one champion and finish him/her off by yourself assuming you are well-fed and leveled.

You are asking essentially the question of which style to use. If you insist on being able to deal with any one champion, then by all means go ahead with deathfire grasp as that is the right thing to do to build Katarina as an assassin. The possible downside of playing Katarina as an assassin is that AP can be a little less compared to a full AP build as there are some changes to the build itself. The good thing is when Death Lotus is on cooldown, you can still spam other abilities like shunpo and auto-attacking to deal an enormous amount of damage.

The core build for the assassin type would include not only deathfire grasp an you mentioned but also lich bane and possibly void staff over abyssal scepter. You will still want Rylai's for survivability as Rabadon's Hat for added AP. Hextech Gunblade will be great for slowing your intended target so it's a great choice as well as sorcerer's shoes. Now, I listed 7 items so you will have to get rid of one. If you want pure reduction of HP based on percentage, such as for tanks, then definitely go with deathfire grasp; otherwise, lich bane will serve better as a reusable nuke with a very short cooldown.

Please ask if you have any other questions and by all means add me in game 1337azn.

+1!

I absolutely LOVE hextech gunblade, if I'm doing well, I even stack an extra Hextech Revolver for the additional spellvamp ^_^.

As for item builds, would Deathfire Grasp be good after completing the boots? This is for taking on tanks, such as Mordekaiser. Any other recommendations?