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Katarina - The Lunatic Blade [Mid]/[Jungle]

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Not sure if I'm missing something, but where's the jungle part of this guide? o.o

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Pallis they can just write
ldknidfhidfhbdu and then downvote :P

Anyways this is a good guide but AP deals alot more than AD (ult) and you are never going to autoattack in a teamfight as you will be using your spells repeatly

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Also seems like a good attitude to people who give tips to your guide. I still do not agree with some things (mainly Ignite over Barrier, but your explanation is fine and Barrier is indeed a viable option), but I really like the idea behind the guide overall and think this can become one of the better guides out there, so enjoy my upvote!

Also, you can turn on Comment to Vote (on the right side of your wcreen where you also select role / map / etc), so people don't downvote your guide without any reasoning. :)

Thank you for the first comment \o/

About Runes

I Agree with some changes.
For Example, are indeed better against a generic midlane opponent. I have armor instead on my account due to the high number of Zed I encounter, who are Ult dependant, in order to kill me, and then it counters them very well.
Anyway I changed that. I'll put explanation for alternative runes.

About glyphs. Well in my opinion, it's totally dependant to the one who play. But on a generic situation I would indead chose some . ( I'm simply use to play every Spell-reliant champions with 10% free cdr in order to reach 40% with Lucidity + Elixir/Blue

About marks. . . Well Magic Penetration is the best stat you can Buy for Katarina. It's probably very effective in order to burst down someone. But I still prefer marks which will grant you some free Ad. First of all because it scales very well with her + All the extra little thing. More DPS in Jungle, Hitting turrets, Simply by auto-attacking something ( Even If I almost never do that Post Shunpo(3-4) I prefer keep distance, and wait for the refresh. Which comes really fast with 40%

Barrier

Lots of people ( almost every players in the league ) loooove to take this spell. But I don't really understand why I should pick a sumoner who emphasize what my champion already does, while I can hide one of his weakness.
ADCs, don't take ignite because they need that extra boost of resistances in dangerous situations. In my opinion Katarina is an APC. Which infers she has no way to protect herself.
Moreover Barrier scales better with high armor/magic resist stats.
Sumoner spells are quite like masteries and runes, even if there are some classic which makes you more effective. It's still dependant to the player. I'll probably put Ignite as a "Generic Pick"

Shunpo 2nd Max

It's a very personnal choice, but I really to jump everydays, when chasing, or fleeing. That's all ._. I will still sure make a note about it in descriptions.

Haunting guise

I often replace it for a Void staff when the ennemy team goes too cocky with Magic Resistance. But I didn't write this part yet. Cheat sheet isn't already finish too

Once again thank you for your advices, I made some changes to the build, and will soon write the rune part, explaining the generic you told me. And will in depth explain my personal choices.

About the flood of mistakes, I just suggest to wait Until I finish some part. I don't really wanna ask you to correct something if I change the whole text later xD But I'll will sure ask you later ^^ Ty so much

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I really like the fact that you try something else and think offtank Katarina is actually good, because of her already high base damage! This is completely true and bruiser Katarina is very viable. There are however some things I don't agree with, so I jotted down some notes on your guide:

Ignite is a better option than Barrier on almost every single occasion, unless you play against a burst champ like Zed or Fizz
In terms of damage, magic penetration marks are just better than attack damage. Period. However, you are right in that helps with last-hitting. I would just recommend you to switch to flat. You benefit from the added attack damage more in the early game than in the late game
Right now, scaling health seals are more effective than scaling armor seals. If you get armor, go for the flat ones instead
However cooldown reduction is certainly useful, 10% early game is nothing (1 second off Bouncing Blades, 0.4 off Sinister Steel, around 1.5 off Shunpo..) Also, because of Voracity Katarina does not benefit from cooldown reduction as much as other champions. Magic resist or ability power glyphs are just better options for Katarina. Also, just swap your cooldown reduction quintessence to movement speed
Replace the Haunting Guise in the full build with Rylai's Crystal Scepter and add a section with other possible items. Also, don't get cooldown reduction boots. Magic penetration is a lot more valuable.
Sinister Steel should be maxed second. The increased speed buff and waveclear are far more important than the lower cooldown on Shunpo. If you don't jump into too awkward situations you don't need to have it on a lower cooldown anyway
Move one point from Sorcery to Feast. The added sustain is a lot more useful than a mere 1.25% cooldown reduction. I think 21/9 is better for Katarina, but if you insist on 21/5/4, swap Enchanted Armor to Recovery and Phasewalker to Scout
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that with Katarina's rework they actually put less emphasis on her ult

This guide has some serious potential and I really like idea behind it, but some things are just sub-optimal and I highly suggest you look into some things again.

On a different note, I can help you with your English and maybe also coding if you want. Feel free to send me a PM in that case. :)

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