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Crownlol
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States3726 Posts
February 28 2013 14:32 GMT
#3241
On February 28 2013 17:00 Diamond wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 28 2013 16:58 Argoth. wrote:
On February 28 2013 15:22 LeeDawg wrote:
so i'm just now starting to venture into the forays of mid lane. I've found I suck with mages, but can get by with assassins. I've got akali and kat, but neither have really clicked with me yet... I'm trying to decide who my next buy should be: diana, kha'zix, or someone else... thoughts?

I just picked up Diana. So much fun dude!


Lich Bane ftw. That + Nashor's = dead towers everywhere.


Nashor's Diana is just amazingly fun to play. Lichbane is also very strong- you can't go wrong with Khaz mid as well though, I really enjoy his insane roam potential.
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Promises
Profile Joined February 2004
Netherlands1821 Posts
February 28 2013 14:36 GMT
#3242
On February 28 2013 21:19 RoieTRS wrote:
I ban kayle and pick katarina
Is there any counter? I'm like 50-0 as kat


I personally had a fairly easy time against Kat as Ziggs/Viktor/Malz. Ziggs has a lot to throw down on himself in case she shunpos on, and has very strong trades with Q and passive, plus satchell kills the ulti. Viktor outpokes her hard with Q-E and the shield from Q, and his ult interrupts DeathLotus. Malz just duels well, full combo means a dead pretty much anyone.
I'm a man of my word, and that word is "unreliable".
ihasaKAROT
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Netherlands4730 Posts
February 28 2013 14:42 GMT
#3243
On February 28 2013 23:36 Promises wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 28 2013 21:19 RoieTRS wrote:
I ban kayle and pick katarina
Is there any counter? I'm like 50-0 as kat


I personally had a fairly easy time against Kat as Ziggs/Viktor/Malz. Ziggs has a lot to throw down on himself in case she shunpos on, and has very strong trades with Q and passive, plus satchell kills the ulti. Viktor outpokes her hard with Q-E and the shield from Q, and his ult interrupts DeathLotus. Malz just duels well, full combo means a dead pretty much anyone.


Ziggs satchel takes too long + everything can be shunpo'd out of + kat Q hits always.
Viktor E can be dodged + he does not have a strong escape / engage / teamfight lategame
Malz is malz + E range is shorten then Kat Q range + W and Q can be shunpo'd out of again

If you want to really counter, you want something that can either burst kat down or farm safely while not being horrible in teamfights. Lux is pretty good against Kat overall, so is Ori
KCCO!
Lounge
Profile Joined November 2011
537 Posts
February 28 2013 15:12 GMT
#3244
I was a fan of Annie versus Kat, I haven't done it in season 3 though, so experiment at your own risk. Run AD reds and abuse your auto range early.
Serelitz
Profile Joined April 2011
Netherlands2895 Posts
February 28 2013 15:24 GMT
#3245
Anivia also does pretty well against katarina imo.
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-02-28 15:34:23
February 28 2013 15:24 GMT
#3246
On February 28 2013 21:19 RoieTRS wrote:
I ban kayle and pick katarina
Is there any counter? I'm like 50-0 as kat

You're on TL, dude. Viktor.

More seriously (though Viktor will destroy her if you don't start mass pots), there was a discussion at one point that stated that Diana wrecks her (not sure how true it is when using tank Kat). I believe strong laners like Malzahar and Mordekaiser give her trouble too, you won't be able to kill Fizz easily but you can shove him so he prob doesn't count. Orianna trashes Kat early on through autos (she can even max shield and there's no way Kat trades with her). I'm pretty sure Swain can snowball the lane pretty hard if he manages to get enough of an advantage before she can instaclear.

On February 28 2013 23:42 ihasaKAROT wrote:
Viktor E can be dodged + he does not have a strong escape / engage / teamfight lategame

Viktor utterly destroys her up to level 4-5. Even then, he can E her if you know the range well because 700 is more than anything Katarina has and is instant with no cast time or animation on the starting point. Just need to click precisely. Then once they're 6 he can instaclear and roam pretty well, ignoring her if she doesn't want to fight. If she wants, she'll eat a QE (and possibly W) everytime she Shunpo on him, as long as Viktor reacts fast enough his shield will be up for at least one spell (possibly 2) of her combo. If she ults, he ults, and with a well-timed W will stop her from shunpo-ing away, ensuring 4-5s of periodic damage (and should be in range to E and possibly Q her again once she shunpo'd away, if he positions well, due to CDs).

Viktor is not a late game mage anyway, especially in this health-oriented meta: too many champs won't die to his full combo even if he was to deal true damage to them, so his goal is to ride the midgame and crush the enemy team.
His teamfighting, however, is pretty good with proper positioning of the team: his W is a good zoning tool and with CDR he'll get at least 2 per fight. His ult still deals a lot of incidental damage if your team is sufficiently damage-oriented to kill the people who stood in it for too long. He's relatively decent at cleaning-up with his Q shield, assuming the main sources of damage and big cooldowns are out (he's no bruiser obviously). His main weakness is the short range on his ult and lack of "oomph", making it more of a "I know the fight will be here, I'll make this zone hell" than a "I decide the fight will be here", Flash-ult is also generally a bad move because the valuable targets are normally standing behind and you need to stay near your ult so it doesn't get outrun.
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
Broetchenholer
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany1961 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-02-28 15:27:14
February 28 2013 15:24 GMT
#3247
Wait, Ori vs Kat is good? I am horrible mid and even more horrible on Orianna, especially vs Kat, but the fact taht your ball takes thime to travel meant for me, that eventhe bad Kats i had at my Elo just jumped over it before it could hit her, then user her aoe thingy in melee range while i try to bring the shield back on me. Si, waisted too spells worth of mana and would basically never really hit a QW combo on her. Even worse, with the casting delay on R, she can jump out of it again after you casted it. I don't see how this would get better with higher skill on both sides.

Edit for above: Yeah, Early levels, you dump on her as you dump on every champ with no aa range, but once she gets levels, i don't see a Orianna winning.
Keniji
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Netherlands2569 Posts
February 28 2013 15:32 GMT
#3248
I never had issues vs kat as mid cho.
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
February 28 2013 15:38 GMT
#3249
On March 01 2013 00:24 Broetchenholer wrote:
Wait, Ori vs Kat is good? I am horrible mid and even more horrible on Orianna, especially vs Kat, but the fact taht your ball takes thime to travel meant for me, that eventhe bad Kats i had at my Elo just jumped over it before it could hit her, then user her aoe thingy in melee range while i try to bring the shield back on me. Si, waisted too spells worth of mana and would basically never really hit a QW combo on her. Even worse, with the casting delay on R, she can jump out of it again after you casted it. I don't see how this would get better with higher skill on both sides.

Edit for above: Yeah, Early levels, you dump on her as you dump on every champ with no aa range, but once she gets levels, i don't see a Orianna winning.

You have pretty good waveclear, and if Kat wants to fight you with anything else than her Q she has to get either close, or on top of you. As long as you manage the ball well you can either stop her from getting near you (Ori's Q has 825 range so it's about forcing Kat to walk into it, or worse through the ball, to get to you), or have the ball on you and that should be enough to stop her from trying to jump you (shield as soon as she shunpo into WQ autos, with an ult if she uses hers, tends to make you autowin trades early, and even later with good kiting or some CDR she shouldn't want to chase you).
It's not faceroll by any means past level 5 though, and the early levels advantage is reduced a ton by the mass consumables start, like Viktor's, but it's definitely a skill match-up with an edge for Orianna I'd say.
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
koreasilver
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
9109 Posts
February 28 2013 15:45 GMT
#3250
Kassadin has the edge against Katarina as well.
Ketara
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States15065 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-02-28 15:48:48
February 28 2013 15:47 GMT
#3251
On March 01 2013 00:24 Broetchenholer wrote:
Wait, Ori vs Kat is good? I am horrible mid and even more horrible on Orianna, especially vs Kat, but the fact taht your ball takes thime to travel meant for me, that eventhe bad Kats i had at my Elo just jumped over it before it could hit her, then user her aoe thingy in melee range while i try to bring the shield back on me. Si, waisted too spells worth of mana and would basically never really hit a QW combo on her. Even worse, with the casting delay on R, she can jump out of it again after you casted it. I don't see how this would get better with higher skill on both sides.

Edit for above: Yeah, Early levels, you dump on her as you dump on every champ with no aa range, but once she gets levels, i don't see a Orianna winning.


You fight Kat kind of the same way you fight Akali and Diana. You beat on her before she hits 6 and then once she's 6 you kill minions as fast as possible while ignoring her.

Kat has trouble against champions who have good harass pre 6 and safe waveclear post 6, which is why Lux and Ori were suggestions. I think Ziggs is good too.

Viktor plays differently, he just kills her.

Forcing her to Shunpo away from a skillshot is really not a bad thing. She needs to Shunpo on to you to do her combo, so if you make her jump away that gives you time to go in and grab a few minions safely. Ori's cooldowns are low enough that you can chase her with the ball while farming and not feel bad about it.

I personally don't think much of Kats laning phase. She has strong ganks and a strong late game teamfight in the right team comp, but there are plenty of champs that can force her to stay in mid without any realistic chance of getting kills.


But in other news, starting 9-11 pots is really really lame. I would love some sort of patch that caps you out at having maximum 5-6 of any one item.
http://www.liquidlegends.net/forum/lol-general/502075-patch-61-league-of-legends-general-discussion?page=25#498
Shikyo
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Finland33997 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-02-28 16:13:20
February 28 2013 16:10 GMT
#3252
So I was playing against Karma and I wondered what supports were good against her but Spellsy didn't even include Karma in his support-ad pick counter list =P

I'm not sure about specifics but beating 9-11 pot starters has always been all about lasthitting well and establishing power during the time you have pots.
League of Legends EU West, Platinum III | Yousei Teikoku is the best thing that has ever happened to music.
Zdrastochye
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Ivory Coast6262 Posts
February 28 2013 16:16 GMT
#3253
The counter to Viktor? Buy boots2 faster so you can dodge his E. Your move Alaric.
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sylverfyre
Profile Joined May 2010
United States8298 Posts
February 28 2013 16:20 GMT
#3254
Also, try to outshove the person with 9 pots, so you can recall and buy by the time you run out of pots. Once you have a real more significant item advantage, you can exert a lot more control.
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-02-28 16:26:22
February 28 2013 16:25 GMT
#3255
On March 01 2013 01:16 Zdrastochye wrote:
The counter to Viktor? Buy boots2 faster so you can dodge his E. Your move Alaric.

Na, you didn't get it: there is absolutely no cast time or animation on Viktor's laser. If you target a point in range (eg you don't have to move to get in its range) the laser will immediately appear there and start moving. This means that even though the laser's effective range of 1100 makes you want to kinda hang back and poke, you can treat it as a 700 range point'n'click nuke (you don't even have to input a direction: you just click right on your opponent and he gets damaged, so you don't care where the laser goes afterwards).

(However Shunpo has 700 range too so I guess Kat can retaliate since she has better base MS, if she react fast enough BB's 675 range may be enough too, though the lack of any animation on Death Ray means that you can already be moving away from your opponent when the laser appears.)
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
Shikyo
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Finland33997 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-02-28 16:45:17
February 28 2013 16:44 GMT
#3256
Yeah, Viktor laser functions just like Syndras and Oriannas skills.

However, I don't think it's quite a 1 framer, it still has an animation.


Actually thinking about it Viktor vs Kat should be totally unplayable for the Kat.
League of Legends EU West, Platinum III | Yousei Teikoku is the best thing that has ever happened to music.
cLutZ
Profile Joined November 2010
United States19574 Posts
February 28 2013 17:05 GMT
#3257
I like AD Mids vs. Kat. Jayce has a strong advantage(IMO) pre-6, and guys like Khazix and Zed can outtrade her at basically every point. Especially Zed, he is really just a stronger Katarina (who uses AD) without the resets.
Freeeeeeedom
EquilasH
Profile Joined April 2009
Denmark2142 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-02-28 17:12:38
February 28 2013 17:11 GMT
#3258
A lot of your guys' suggestions to Katarina counters are really odd. These are the best Katarina counters from my experience (I played her a lot on smurfs+my main during the end of season 2 and some in the start of season 3) in order of hardest counter to soft counter (all of these are assuming people are really good with said champion):
Fiddlesticks
Viktor
Cho'Gath
Akali (really hard counter in isolated 1v1 situation but it gets more even the more junglers exert pressure)
Kassadin
Malzahar
LeBlanc
To some extent Diana, Fizz, Annie, Ryze and Rumble counters Kat, but you can easily win against these champions if you are better than your opponent.

Lux vs Kat is incredibly even and can quickly snowball to either side.
Ziggs vs Kat should be easy win for good Kat against good Ziggs.
Orianna vs Kat is skill matchup.
Twisted Fate vs Kat depends a lot on the junglers but if left alone Kat can really abuse his W cooldown.
Karthus vs Kat is almost as one-sided as Karthus vs Akali. It's a lot of fun.
Syndra vs Kat is a really snowbally and interesting skill matchup.
wat
overt
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States9006 Posts
February 28 2013 17:50 GMT
#3259
Was briefly mentioned but release Diana stomped Katarina in lane. Haven't played the match up since Diana's everything got nerfed and tanky Katarina got big but I'd assume Diana still does okay if she doesn't just outright win.
Shikyo
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Finland33997 Posts
February 28 2013 18:06 GMT
#3260
new vayne trick:

If you tumble into a wall you have 0 delay before shooting, super burst early.
League of Legends EU West, Platinum III | Yousei Teikoku is the best thing that has ever happened to music.
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