Despite Katarina feeling oppressive in the mid-game, she's been having a hard time actually converting her snowballs into wins. This is true even in the hands of her most dedicated mains. So, we're going to play up some of her resilience in lane so that she can find more success battling her lane opponent.

Katarina struggles in a gamemode with only 2 opponents, so we're adjusting her passive to fully reset her ultimate while giving her some more force behind her basic abilities.

Katarina lost a fair bit from the Sorcerer's Shoes flat penetration nerf and is a little weak right now, so we'd like to give her some power back. We're going to give her more opportunities to chunk out her opponents without increasing her short-term burst, which already seems high enough.

The last patch changes to Katarina helped out her AP builds a ton while not having on-hit go out of control. As players have switched over to her more performant Lich Bane builds, Katarina’s performing a little better than she’s meant to, so we’re walking back half of the Q buff we delivered last patch.

As it stands today, the majority of Katarina players are building AP and opting to max Q first, despite E max and AD on-hit builds being statistically better. In order to better match Katarina to how players want to build her, we'll be shifting some of her power from E-max and on-hit builds into Q-max AP builds.

Katarina's various builds require some re-tuning occasionally. We are giving AP builds a slight buff so they stand clearly above the other builds as her primary playstyle, and also buffing the AD+AS builds as those aren’t performing well at the moment.

Bruiser and tank builds shouldn't work well on someone like Katarina, a hyper-mobile resetting assassin. We're making some slight adjustments to discourage only those itemizations.

Katarina’s been terrorizing Skilled play, so we're adjusting her roaming prowess due to the impact it can have on higher-leveled matches.

After our 11.2 adjustments to make Kraken Slayer work with on-hit damage modifiers, champs like Katarina and Urgot are in need of some tuning. We’ve noticed that players really enjoy playing on-hit builds with these champions, and even if they’re not on-meta, we believe they should be viable. Prior to the Kraken changes, a significant number of Katarina’s and Urgot’s builds were on-hit, but they also had significantly lower win rates in comparison to their traditional build. These changes should bring those builds up to roughly where they were before.