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Spells:
Flash
Ignite
Ability Order
Voracity (PASSIVE)
Katarina Passive Ability
Introduction
First off: I won't be making a beautiful structured guide with many pictures and flashy BB-Codes. I just want to show you the way of Tankarina.
Hi everyone, this is my Tankarina guide. I used to play pre-prenerfed Tankarina all the time.
But after the nerfs on the ultimate (reducing hitable targets to 3) it has become rather weak.
Now Riot remaked her. Her early becomes even weaker but her base damage is still strong. This build gives her the needed tankyness and survability to cover that weak early game. Into the midgame you will become unbelievable tanky and your sustain damage in fights will be insane. You cannot be shut down easily anymore as you will be hopping in the fight and dealing sustained damage while not beeing killed as fast as other AP Mids.


+ Wins against most Melees on mid
+ Can still be the counterpick to what she used to be
+ Great farmer
+ Despite beeing tanky, still deals hard damage
+ Very mobile
Cons
- Crowd Control is still annoying for her
- Tankarina tends to overdo it sometimes and then die to the lack of actual burst damage
- Very item dependant, you cannot tank without tankitems
- Seems rather unusual and can lead your team to blame loses on you
- Is underestimated, thus peopel will attack you, which can destroy the tankyness part. No one focuses a tank, thats why tanks survive long.
With these you have the minimum of magic damage amplifiers needed to dish out damage while going for tank items.
The



For more additional damage you can get 21-9-0.



If you are aiming for




Sinister Steel was remaked with the new Katarina. It has a nice amount of damage and you can easily trigger







Skilling

1.


2.

2.1 Upgrade to Boots of Choice
3.


4. What you did not get at 3.
5.


6. What you did not get at 6.
7.

So that is what you would do if everything is going fine and you can pull it off. But you can buy the alternative Items aswell. Tankarina is not fixed on only this build, it is situational.
At first it sounds impossible to get





You won't be going for actual AP-Items that do not give you any tankyness, that means:
Alternative Items:






Boot Choices: I will list all the boots aviable ingame and say why you should buy them and why not, Tier 2 that is.








As Tankarina you can survive that first wave of damage easily and jump in after the first few CCs.
But do not be too reckless and jump in without any followup from your teammates, your damage is average compared to the real AP


That makes you and the low cooldowns on



I made this Tank

For sure, many of you will still think of this as a trollbuild and prefer the normal AP

I did not include comment to rate, because I believe that some of the Mmobafire community are mature enough to rate this one objectively.
Now have fun tanking with

- xIchi
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