Yesterday – June 9, patch 12.11 officially arrived on the Vietnamese server with significant changes. This means that experiments for patch 12.12 have also been launched on the PBE server, which gamers are very interested in. Essentially, this is a “bug fix” patch as the previous two updates were extremely large and created many issues in League of Legends.
The first name that Riot Games has put on the adjustment table is Katarina, as they inadvertently “forgot” this character in previous updates. In the latest updates on the PBE server, Riot Games has heavily nerfed Katarina’s interaction with AD stats and attack speed. Specific changes include:
Katarina
The interaction ratio with basic AD of Shunpo has been reduced from 75% to 65%.
The interaction ratio with AD of E – Assassinate has been reduced from 50% to 40%.
The interaction ratio with on-hit effects of the ultimate has increased from 25-35% to 28-38%.
The interaction ratio with AP per hit of the ultimate has been reduced from 19% to 18%.
The interaction ratio with attack speed per hit of the ultimate has changed from 80% attack speed to 166.6% of base attack speed.
Looking at these changes, we can see that building items focused on AD and attack speed will become significantly less effective for Katarina. Perhaps Riot Games wants this Assassins’ Blade to return to AP items instead of building items like the Blade of the Ruined King and the God Slayer Axe as she currently does.
However, these changes still do not satisfy players who truly love Katarina. In fact, according to a share from streamer KatEvoled, Riot’s update for this champion seems quite meaningless. The reason is that the playstyle centered around the God Slayer Axe remains unaffected, so it is highly likely that it is still the optimal build path for this champion instead of AP items.
Of course, these changes have only been applied for a few days on the PBE server, and Riot still has a lot of time to continue testing and adjusting Katarina. It is suggested that they should make adjustments to the interaction between Katarina’s abilities and items obtained from the Abyssal Blade to reduce the strength of the God Slayer Axe playstyle.