The Sinister Blade
| Release Date: | September 19, 2009 |
| Cost: | 3150 790  |
| Attributes: | Assassin, Melee, Recommended |
| Resource: | Manaless |
Statistics
| Health: | 395 (+83) |
| HP Regen: | 6.95 (+0.55) |
| Move Speed: | 345 |
| Attack Damage: | 53 (+3.2) |
| Attack Speed: | 0.658 (+2.74%) |
| Range: | 125 |
| Armor: | 14.75 (+4) |
| Magic Resist: | 30 (+1.25) |
Katarina The Sinister Blade is a melee assassin AP Carry. One of her trademarks in competitive play is that she benefits from the reset mechanic as a result of her passive, Voractiy. Katarina is a great "finishing move" champion due to high burst and mechanics such as Sinister Steel, which grants movement speed if it hits an enemy champion. When paired with her Shunpo ability, it can be used as a gap closer or an escape. One of the keys to avoiding the majority of her damage is to crowd control her once she begins to use Death Lotus.
[edit] Description
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Driven by an intense killer instinct, Katarina uses her talents as an assassin for the glory of Noxus, and the continued elevation of her family. While her fervor drives her to ever-greater feats, it can sometimes lead her astray.
From childhood, Katarina displayed a natural gift for combat. As the daughter of a prominent Noxian general many paths were open to her, but she rejected them all for the path of the blade. Rigorously trained by the finest assassins in Noxus, her father the best among them, it was not long before Katarina demanded her first assignment. The task they gave her was aggravatingly simple: assassinate a low-ranking Demacian officer. As she set to her work infiltrating the enemy camp, Katarina discovered an opportunity too tantalizing to pass by - the arrival of a Demacian General. Stalking him to his tent, she quietly dispatched his guards and slit his throat. Pleased with her impressive kill, she disappeared into the night. Katarina's elation faded the next day when her original objective, the Demacian officer, led his forces to ambush unprepared Noxian soldiers. Though the Noxians fought valiantly, they suffered heavy casualties. Furious at her mistake, Katarina set off to complete her original task. Returning to the camp, she spied her now heavily guarded target and realized a stealthy kill was no longer possible. Drawing her blades, Katarina swore the officer would die, no matter the cost. She leapt into battle, unleashing a whirlwind of steel. One by one blades flashed and guards fell, each strike bringing her one step closer to the officer. A final thrown dagger restored her honor. Bloody and bruised, Katarina barely escaped the Demacian forces, and returned to Noxus a changed woman. The scar she earned that night now serves as a constant reminder that she must never let passion interfere with duty.
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"Never question my loyalty. You will never know what I endure for it."
- Katarina
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[edit] Abilities
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| (Innate) Champion kills or assists reduce Death Lotus's cooldown by 15 seconds and refresh basic abilities.
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| (Active) Katarina throws a dagger that will bounce from enemy to enemy, dealing magic damage. Each subsequent hit deals 10% less damage. The blade won't bounce to hit the same enemy more than once on the same cast. Enemies hit are marked for 4 seconds. Katarina's basic attacks or spells will consume the mark to deal additional magic damage.
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| Range: 600
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| Enemies Hit: 4
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| Cooldown: 10 / 9.5 / 9 / 8.5 / 8 seconds
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Magic Damage: 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 / 160
(+0.45 ability power)
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Mark Magic Damage: 15 / 30 / 45 / 60 / 75
(+0.15 ability power)
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| (Active) Katarina whirls daggers in a circle dealing magic damage. If she hits an enemy Champion, Katarina gains bonus Movement Speed for 1 second
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| Cooldown: 4 seconds
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Magic Damage: 40 / 75 / 110 / 145 / 180
(+0.5 bonus attack damage)(+0.15 ability power)
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| Bonus Movement Speed: 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35%
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| (Active) Katarina moves to her target's location, appearing behind it. If the target is an enemy, she deals magic damage to the target. After using Shunpo, Katarina gains 15% damage reduction for 1.5 seconds.
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| Range: 700
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| Cooldown: 12 / 10.5 / 9 / 7.5 / 6 seconds
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Magic Damage: 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 / 160
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| (Active) Katarina becomes a flurry of blades, throwing daggers at the closest 3 enemy Champions dealing magic damage over 2 seconds and applying Grievous Wounds to enemies hit, reducing their healing by 50% for 3 seconds.
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| Radius of AoE: 550
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| Cooldown: 60 / 55 / 50 seconds
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Magic Damage: 400 / 500 / 600
(+3 bonus attack damage)(+2.0 ability power)
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[edit] Competitive Usage
[edit] Patch History
v3.01
- Bouncing Blades
- Initial damage reduced to 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 / 160 from 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180
- Shunpo
- Damage reduction duration reduced to 1.5 seconds from 3
- Death Lotus
- Total ability power ratio increased to 2.0 from 1.75
v1.0.0.154
- Base movement speed reduced to 345 from 350
- Sinister Steel
- Movement speed adjusted to 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35% from 12 / 20 / 28 / 36 / 44%
v1.0.0.152
- Base Movement Speed increased by 25.
v1.0.0.151
- Bouncing Blade initial damage reduced at later ranks to 60 / 90 / 150 / 180 from 60 / 95 / 130 / 165 / 200
- Sinister Steel damage reduced at later ranks to 40 / 75 / 110 / 145 / 180 from 40 / 80 / 120 / 160 / 200
v1.0.0.149
v1.0.0.146
- Voracity cooldown reduction on kill or assist increased to 15 seconds from 10 seconds
- Bouncing Blade
- Base damage increased to 60 / 95 / 130 / 165 / 200 from 50 / 85 / 120 / 155 / 190
- Ability power ratio decreased to 0.45 from 0.5
- Mark detonation ability power ratio reduced to 0.15 from 0.2
- Sinister Steel ability power ratio decreased to 0.25 from 0.3
- Shunpo
- Damage increased to 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 / 160 from 40 / 70 / 100 / 130 / 160
- Cooldown reduced to 12 / 10.5 / 9 / 7.5 / 6 seconds from 14 / 12 / 10 / 8 / 6
- Tooltip fixed to now state the correct damage reduction amount (15%, not 20%)
v1.0.0.145 REMAKE
- Voracity (Passive)
- Champion kills or assists reduce Death Lotus's cooldown by 10 seconds and refresh basic abilities
- Bouncing Blades
- 10 / 9.5 / 9 / 8.5 / 8 second cooldown
- Katarina throws a dagger which deals 50 / 85 / 120 / 155 / 190 (+0.5 Ability Power) magic damage. The dagger bounces to the 4 closest enemies dealing 10% less damage with each bounce
- Enemies hit are marked for 4 seconds. Katarina's basic attacks or spells will consume the mark dealing 15 / 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 (+0.2 Ability Power) magic damage
- Sinister Steel
- 4 second cooldown
- Whirls daggers in a circle dealing 40 / 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 (+0.5 bonus Attack Damage) (+0.35 Ability Power) magic damage. If she hits an enemy Champion, Katarina gains 12 / 20 / 28 / 36 / 44% Movement Speed for 1 second
- Shunpo
- 14 / 12 / 10 / 8 / 6 second cooldown
- Moves to a target's location. Deals 40 / 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 (+0.5 Ability Power) magic damage if the target is an enemy
- After using Shunpo, Katarina gains 20% damage reduction for 3 seconds
- Death Lotus
- 60 / 55 / 50 second cooldown
- Becomes a flurry of blades, throwing daggers at the closest 3 enemy Champions dealing 400 / 500 / 600 (+3 bonus Attack Damage) (+1.75 Ability Power) magic damage over 2 seconds
- Daggers apply Grievous Wounds, reducing incoming healing by 50% for 3 seconds
v1.0.0.130
- Shunpo now always moves Katarina behind the target regardless if Killer Instincts is active
v1.0.0.129
- Shunpo now moves Katarina in front of the target
- When Killer Instincts is active, Katarina moves behind the target
v1.0.0.123
- Katarina will now attempt to attack the target after teleporting to an enemy champion with Shunpo
v1.0.0.121
- Shunpo can now target wards again, but will reveal wards in enemies when used in this manner
v1.0.0.115
- Killer Instincts healing reduction on Bouncing Blades duration reduced to 5 from 10
v1.0.0.114
- Shunpo now prefers to target enemies over allies when your cursor overlaps both.
v1.0.0.112
v1.0.0.110
- Death Lotus
- Base damage per dagger increased to 50 / 65 / 80 from 40 / 50 / 60
- Ability power ratio reduced to 0.25 from 0.3
- Attack damage ratio reduced to 0.5 from 0.55
v1.0.0.109
- Shunpo damage changed to 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240 from 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 / 210
v1.0.0.108
- Shunpo will now place Katarina on the other side of the target(relative to Katarina), rather than behind the target
v1.0.0.107
- Bouncing Blades
- Now scales off of 80% bonus attack damage (instead of 100% of all attack damage)
- Base damage increased to 80 / 95 / 130 / 165 / 200
- Now has a 0.35 ability power ratio
- Death Lotus
- Base damage decreased to 40 / 50 / 60 from 50 / 65 / 80
- Now scales off of both attack damage and ability power rather than one or the other
- Now hits the closest 3 targets rather than 3 random targets
- Cooldown reduced to 60 / 55 / 50 seconds from 60 at all levels
v1.0.0.105
- Fixed several tooltip errors with Death Lotus related to number of champions hit
v1.0.0.104
- Bouncing Blade cooldown reduced to 9 / 8.5 / 8 / 7.5 / 7 seconds from 10 / 9.5 / 9 / 8.5 / 8
- Killer Instinct cooldown reduced to 20 / 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 from 22 / 20 / 18 / 16 / 14
v1.0.0.103
- Death Lotus now fires blades at three targets at all levels
v1.0.0.101
- Netherblade mana cost reduced to 25 at all levels from 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 / 70
- Riftwalk
- No longer shows cast particles over fog of war
- Now leaves a buff showing the duration of the increased cost and damage of subsequent casts
v1.0.0.100
- Shunpo can no longer be cast while rooted
v1.0.0.97
- Bouncing Blades cooldown increased to 10 / 9.5 / 9 / 8.5 / 8 seconds from 8 at all levels
- Voracity (Passive) gold gain on kills and assists reduced to 25 from 50
v1.0.0.87
- Bouncing Blade bounce range reduced to 400 from 450
v1.0.0.83
- Base health increased to 478 from 460
- Health per level increased to 83 from 75
- Damage per level increased to 3.2 form 2
- Bouncing Blades bonus damage increased to 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 from 15 30 / 45 / 60 / 75
- Killer Instinct (Passive) now increases damage form abilities and melee attacks by 8 / 12 / 16 / 20 / 24 each hit
- Killer Instinct (Active)
- Using Shunpo reduces all damage received by 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 percent for 3 seconds
- Using Bouncing Blades remains unchanged
- Fixed a tooltip error with Shunpo where the damage listed was lower than the actual damage dealt
- Death Lotus physical damage scaling increased to 55% of bonus attack damage from 50% of bonus attack damage
- Voracity has been adjusted to trigger off kills or assists instead of a champion you've damaged within a short time frame. THis should result in more consistent behavior, but not impact most cases
v1.0.0.82
- Added an alternate attack animation
v1.0.0.79
- Death Lotus tooltip updated to reflect that it gains 50% of her bonus attack damage rath than item damage
- Killer Instinct
- Bonus damage is no longer lost when you switch targets
- Bonus damage now triggers on spell casts as well as attacks
- Bonus damage no longer triggers on misses or dodges
v1.0.0.75
- Death Lotus
- Added a new updated particle
- Fixed a bug in which it owuld not immediately deal damage
- Channeling time reduced to 2.6 seconds from 3
- Number of daggers thrown increased to 10 from 9
v1.0.0.74
- Reduced the casting range of Bouncing Blades to 600 from 650
- Killer Instinct cooldown reduced to 22 / 20 / 18 / 16 / 14 from 23 / 21 / 19 / 17 / 15
- NOTE: Katarina is slated for an additional upgrade on her Killer Instinct skill, but it unfortunately did not make it into the patch. We will be adding this in an upcoming patch.
v1.0.0.72
- Death Lotus
- Base damage modified from 50 / 65 / 80 to 30 / 45 / 60
- AD scaling changed to 50% of damage form items instead of 55% of total attack damage
- AP scaling reduced to 30% from 40%
v1.0.0.70
- Death Lotus attack damage scaling reduced to 55% from 65%
v1.0.0.61
- Killer Instincts
- Bouncing Blades healing reduction effect increased to 65% form 60%
- Bouncing Blades healing reduction effect duration increased to 10 seconds from 8
v1.0.0.52
- Shunpo
- Ability Power Ratio reduced from 0.8 to 0.75
- Cooldown increased from 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 to 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6
- Death Lotus
- Ability Power Ratio reduced from 0.4 to 0.35
v1.0.0.32
- Death Lotus
- Cooldown increased from 45 to 60
- AP scaling decreased from 0.5 to 0.4
v0.9.25.34
- Changed the look of her model
- Death Lotus
- Decreased damage from 60 / 90 / 120 to 30 / 45 / 60
- Increased scaling with physical damage from 15% to 65%
- Increased scaling with ability power from 20% to 50%
v0.9.25.24
- Added 1.25 magic resist per level
- Bouncing Blades healing reduction duration increased from 3 seconds to 7
- Killer Instinct
- Modified cooldown from 20 seconds at all levels to 23 / 21 / 19 / 17 / 15
- Changed stacking attack speed to stacking +4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 damage
- Shunpo
- Now applies damage after the teleport
- Can no longer Shunpo to yourself
- Reduced ability power ratio from 1 to 0.8
- Fixed a bug that caused Katarina to have a mana bar
- Now slows for 15% with Rylai's Crystal Scepter
- Death Lotus
- Now slows for 15% with Rylai's Crystal Scepter
- Now scales on either 20% of ability power or 15% of physical damage (whichever is higher)
- Updated recommended items
v0.9.25.21
Katarina released
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