S14 is the Age of Katarina

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[@LoLDobby]

You can check his build here. www.deeplol.gg/summoner/kr/lotusdao

[@syedyousafbukhari2213]

not working, thhhanks for the video tho, it's very informative

[@lolman28670]

Man this is supposed to be a showcase of how good is kat on S14, but I can only see how freaking insane is this guy at kata.

[@kylep.3729]

yeah lol this is like half macro analysis and half this guys montage, this guy is fucking nuts

[@ulquiorra635]

Add ur voice cuz with subtitles is boring.

[@willyboi1105]

My brain can't even think that fast to do all those comboes. Best I can do is Q E W R meanwhile this guy is chaining Es over and over again like he's climbing through the backline.

[@paulmota7859]

3:22 notice how our main walks up to the edge of both daggers to make sure the two of them land before ulting

[@timaxenlmao9198]

Ye ik right incredible if I would have done that I would fck up hard and be like well my dagger didn't hit but it's so simple but still big brain moves wow!

[@Julez3133]

he also walked to the furthest bit of both edges closest towards yone so that they both pop in range of yone, if he just went inbetween them both they would have went off but might not have hit him

[@kenseidawanderer]

Pretty fun to watch a skilled Kat sometimes. These combos are really tight and the usage of Kat's mobility is absolute madness from LianHuaDao. Good stuff.

[@axelb7775]

honestly I feel like the people he was playing against had never seen a katarina. late game lucian walks str8 into her dagger without a maw, like what could possibly happen? xd kata always plays off of enemy's mistakes and his enemies made a lot of mistakes lol

[@onlineuser1990]

​@@axelb7775sure, but the man is vsing kr challenger players and pro kr players, like chovy was mentioned in two of the clips. Some ppl might not know how to play vs a kat but it also just goes to show how uncommon she is in high level games and how disrespected kat is as a champ for the past few years

[@axelb7775]

@@onlineuser1990 her pick rate is pretty high, it has been for a while tbh. I guess maybe people are just not used to her. Idk, hard to defend them considering the champ has very clear and easy ways to counter

[@onlineuser1990]

@@axelb7775 I'm talking about kr challenger, not your average server diamond and below. Ofc she's one of the highest picked mid lanes but in high level play picking Katarina is rare because the champ is pretty shit and only otps play her. And in kr there aren't that many kat otps in kr challenger.

[@onlineuser1990]

@@axelb7775 also, yes it's very easy to counter kat by not walking on a dagger. I think your average kr challenger player knows that much. U don't need to make it sound like these insanely good players just happens to not know this fact. Yes people make mistakes but to think that kr challenger players just happens to "walk on daggers all the time look at how bad they are" is pretty ignorant

[@z0tw]

Loving the tons of uploads lately dobby

[@magicalnoodles]

I'd love to play Katarina, but I know that if I try to mimic even a small percent of what is shown in the video, the final kda is gonna be 0/10

[@thepekay]

You can always try it a few times. You'd be surprised how many times you can luck out by mashing with her. Of course you'll still end 4/10

[@RiverNunu]

Exactly this. Seeing her being played out feels so good and smooth (sometimes even OP), but when we try and mimic it we'll just hard int 💀 I can hardly keep up with what's happening during the teamfights in this vid when played in real time lol

[@ptbro3334]

Dw,smashing your face on the keyboard is almost guaranteed at least a kill in every fight

[@RiverNunu]

@@ptbro3334 nah, doesn't work like that. You only get to face smash the keyboard if you're good enough to get pass through laning phase, at which point you wouldn't me smashing keyboards anyways.

[@solo1xegirl]

I’m chal kata, she’s pretty easy to learn. You just need to be patient in lane, don’t tunnel vision and have good rotates. Also limit test a lot and turn off chat 💀 your team will hate you if your not dropping 20 kills lol.

[@eebbaa5560]

i like that this channel is dedicated to breaking down all kinds of champions and strategies in a detailed and objective manner. the league community is infested with reductionist players who are obsessed with labeling and complaining about everything instead of pushing their limits like the players this channel showcases. lol dobby is a channel about playing the game and understanding it. it’s refreshing when everywhere else you look is filled with people trashing the game for one stupid reason after another. no matter what the video is about, dobby gets me excited to play league of legends.

[@HSE331]

Yeah this is objectively the best league related channel. Every other eceleb is obsessed with doom posting and acting like every season is the worst season ever and constantly flaming Riot that xyz is op.

[@natdaone5075]

I would love to see more videos analysing CN player like MangoFish or even Xiao Lao Ban who is playing in Korea now. Great video as always!

[@guitar2935]

I remember Xiao Lao Ban used to be on the top of the NA ladder for years. Did he play in the LCS or something?

[@RocoPwnage]

Katarina builds for years have been so ridiculous that now if someone just builds full AP it's a weird unique build.

[@duoking1.]

more the fact its E focused, not ult massive aoe damage

[@yungmetr0135]

she has been building AP since forever, AD wasn't as popular & tank was never meta

[@XenagarD]

Ad onhit with bork and sunderer had kat killing entire teams meanwhile heartsteel kat could get all her procs with ult in a team and scale with titanic and bork into a team fighting monster.@@yungmetr0135 She hasn't been building ap for a season or 2 until now where she can just oneshot with ult again

[@nghiabui1224]

@@yungmetr0135 yeah that's not it lol

[@yungmetr0135]

@@nghiabui1224 look at the stats LOL!

[@howard2215]

Thanks for your work!!

[@kujojotarostandoceanman2641]

I love how he actually push the reworded Kat to the max and not just the old E R spin to win playstyle

[@leonsixt2744]

yeah especially lich bane has a damn cool playstyle

[@kentokobayashi4655]

I think you're over estimating the importance of Katarina's ult. It's probably the weakest part of her kit. She never was an e-r champion to begin with. Her daggers and e always provided more damage than the ult.

[@yungmetr0135]

she was never an E R spin champ

[@janschmitz7980]

@@yungmetr0135 guess you are a new player then

[@kentokobayashi4655]

@@janschmitz7980 I've mained Katarina for years. I've gotten to Diamond with her. I've gotten to Diamond with Evelynn as well. She never was an e-r champion. Only low elo players believe that Katarina is an e-r or faceroll champion lol.

[@TendoTheDude]

Dobby always has the bangers for league gaming music

[@jasonduncan660]

This was very informative by change can u do an akali vid plz its been a while i like how u show the team fights

[@RazorWinter]

I love to see Katarina played well. I believe a lot of older players disagree cuz they still have PTSD of the old Katarina that just rolls the head on the keyboard and pentakills. But I think the new one is very beautiful to see. This video showing a Katarina beating Chovy gives me hope that we see her in proplay someday.

[@onlineuser1990]

Kat is mainly just damage and no util so kat will logically never be picked in the current worlds meta unfortunately. Maybe s17

[@ollie-d]

@@onlineuser1990I'm from the future and can confirm that full AD Kat is a staple pick as support in S17 and she shreds.

[@jackkessler245]

Great vid

[@MayBlaze0]

Damnit, this has got me wanting to play Katarina again. This won't end well...

[@andreacatanzaro8460]

I love Katarina, but honestly, a very "hard skill" play is actually that when you kill somebody you still have E up. What I mean is, when you score a kill most of the times me but i see almost everyone, you end up pressing E that fast that causes you to end up not having E up after the reset, i see sometimes even Nyro doing so, KatEvolved not all the times he's very good but sometimes happend. I dont saw him doing so, he's very good.

[@atomo9985]

Muy buen video bro

[@SarosEreshkigal]

POG

[@Retromatize]

Early to Dobby, early to challenger.

[@DJSJ89]

Bro this is what i needed in my life, im katarina main since 4 season and know mechanics resets all of that but only reason im in plat is IM IMPATIENT and giving bounty for enemy after strong early, also i prefer dorans blade and conqueror but i will try play her a little different like you

[@m1nkz-]

dobby new music Pog

[@tacotimmer8288]

kata main here. commenting for the algorithm so dobby is influenced to make more kata videos

[@siahsneaka]

You're my hero dobby

[@tobiashantke5218]

Good to see another option than stormsurge after its nerf

[@TheThinkingOtterr]

Love your videos ❤ Do you know what happened to varus king? I want to see his S14 build

[@LoLDobby]

I'm not sure about his current situation :(

[@thurowaway]

Really surprising that there isn't a stormsurge anywhere in the build, will try it sometime 😂😂

[@Mardodooo]

You just forget about vex / fizz as a real counter but great video !

[@Noob4Reall]

Wall I hear in the beginning is Zigg making "wawawawawa" noises 😂

[@JessicaMorgani]

Instead of void staff you'll probably want the new crypbloom thing. You can check the numbers, the new item has a higher winrate and you don't really need the 10% extra pen do you?

[@godmyte]

Ate.

[@Choppygobrrr]

I’m a hit or miss with Kat in the previous seasons when mythics came in, but the removal of mythics makes it a lot better. I’m still wondering when we’re gonna get Gunblade back though :/

[@teh12man]

The music is a banger

[@anan-ko1bi]

Please make video about lazy feel- rank 1 korea currently

[@leonsixt2744]

i wish it was possible to carry the passive dagger with a blink. Can be a very tight window but that would make for some cool mechanical expressions

[@DarkSlimeSera]

It's actually possible to do so. If you walk on a dagger that's already on the ground at the same time as a dagger drops on top of you and blink at the same time, it will carry one dagger with you. It's very hard to do in game though. It is a lot easier to do if you use flash to get on top of the dagger already on the ground though

[@aydenfellerhoff3160]

Do one on lich bane nashors ekko :) HoB too against mages top Korean Ekkos are going it and it’s very good

[@aydenfellerhoff3160]

I think xiao lao ban hit masters with a 73% wr

[@aznbeagle]

never thought of using w like that and prepping q

[@DanteCrowlley]

I don't play anymore but I can still feel the urge to ban Kat

[@IvagaanimaI]

Just tried it on an Emerald/LowDia mmr & honestly damages are more suprising than when Conq X5 Kat lvl 2 cheese was a thing

[@edwind_]

Katarina main here 🙋‍♂️, here's a comment for the algorithm ❤

[@LoLDobby]

Nice !

[@thinhngoviet4687]

Kata GO AD or AP better ?

[@tommasobrindani5894]

Most people think Kata is just about mashing QWER as fast as possible. This video shows that it's not that simple.

[@ptbro3334]

She also presses f and D occasionally 😂 then continues to mash QWER

[@psychokuca302]

Yes,cuz its QEWR! (joke)

[@brandon7138]

here early

[@helloworld9730]

Best Kata world

[@LinkinKable]

So basically how you played kata before the roaming style became popular some seasons ago

[@SlyI42]

Nice video. Opens the game -> pick Kat -> 2/14 -> closes the game. Hmm

[@NLaos]

Is ad still viable, i like playing that more than ap lol

[@elsoudani4028]

We need the Lucian video

[@wind7459]

good uploads, can you make a kassadin video?

[@LoLDobby]

Sure !

[@brandonmunson9781]

finally i can go AP kata

[@kurisu1204]

Hm hoped for a new or strange build

[@piyanatkundej8848]

Age of Katarina? You mean every Tuesday on ARAM?

[@beelyagami8064]

im just platinum and want to play another role like assasin so can i ask ? is kata an easy or average champ to play ? Or are there some other assasin that is more easier to play than her ?

[@LoLDobby]

It's not easy at first, but once you get the hang of it, winning becomes easier I also recommend Talon

[@marcelinehvh]

Katarina has pretty simple abilities but her Laning phase is weak making her hard to win games with, if you want to play her try out a conqueror build with nashors and riftmaker

[@alejandrojimenez1685]

Idk why, I haven't seen the first Katarina, who I wad pretty sure was going to be busted AF in this season

[@khangnguyensongnhat6254]

She is clunky to play so the ones who play her are mainly one-trick. While the new items are busted for her, her laning phase are still terrible, she is losing to basically everyone out there before she can get those items.

[@ptbro3334]

​@@khangnguyensongnhat6254copium

[@azelynhirano7737]

You basically have to be much better than the enemy midlander to survive Laning. From what I've seen, she only gets to scale if she gets lucky with ganks or if I roamed too much and let her farm.

[@tonysmith9905]

@@azelynhirano7737 It's honestly not hard at all to survive since she has a million blinks. Just play back and don't be afraid to sac a bit of hp to get your important farm. Just wait for your opportunity to either roam or clean up a skirmish and you should be fine. Once you get sheen and a bit of ap you can start looking to kill your laning opponent.

[@itjustk1ll895]

As a katarina enjoyer, besides knowing how to engage/disengage, squeezing autos between your skills in early game is what will make you win fights. Learn to play with your auto resets. Most katarinas struggle with early game but as we all know, practice will make that better :)

[@owo4470]

i still dont get why kat needed on hit on her abilties, there was literally 0 need for that

[@vimare1176]

And I still miss old Kat 😢

[@SylvieDaBunny]

I wish I was good at Katarina but once I hit 30 my reflexes have gone out the window

[@zweihakaxd]

When Kassadin

[@cosmicbrownie2312]

Back to permabanning Kat :)

[@loukinz]

best kat world by far

[@highnoon2844]

Me who plays urgot and garen: 😂

[@kobokusa4736]

As a kat main it makes me happy shes getting recognized🎉 SHES AN ASSASSIN NOW, she can deal dmg, she can build full ap, she...she! She?!😂

[@syedyousafbukhari2213]

7:58 was so insane

[@rrod3602]

Kata felt so mediocre for so long I’m so glad she feels fun again

[@user-ll9xz6yz6i]

Actually Katarina can counter Galio easily with an AD Conqueror build. Pantheon revolves around ganks and making sure you only engage if he uses abilities on the wave or if his stacks are low. Renekton has room for errors but if he plays perfectly, you have to just rely on mid to late game and focus on teamfights as you excell better on those.

[@runemaster8656]

I'm surprised he doesn't take ingenious for a lower cd on lich.

[@iNyric]

idk, i like the Conqu on hit build more, its consistent

[@nikolasioakimidis3003]

Kata hasn't been less than S+ for a single second in this curcus of a moba

[@MarcosHenrique-pm6tn]

I think that the main reason the katarina mains are building lich bane it's not even because the item now is extremely busted (you can get much more ap now, so the passive hits like a truck) but the fact that it provides 8% movespeed, combine this with the fact that now lanes are much bigger (top lane, for example) and the rune relentless hunter, you can win games even in bad matchups just by roaming

[@TanLe-gz8yp]

Well i think if you build lich bane, it’s should go with ingenious hunter to proc the most sheen passive. For roaming you always got teleport in your pocket

[@MarcosHenrique-pm6tn]

@@TanLe-gz8yp yeah it's something too, but if you're playing against a losing matchup, playing for roams are generally better

[@Avery-qg2jy]

Its because the damage is comparable to nashors but the upfront burst is prefered considering how much burst the other items also give you. Plus the components are MUCH better than nashors, you dont waste 600 gold buying two daggers that give you nothing so it's very nice to build into first.

[@MarcosHenrique-pm6tn]

@@Avery-qg2jy yeah, the componets are much, MUCH better, hextech alternator is so broken now it doesn't give hp anymore, instead giving 50 ap which helps clearing the wave + roaming

[@katarinatop]

well it used to be stormsurge rush on previous patch but after the nerfs it only gives 90AP, compared to 100AP from lich bane which also has better components and better upfront burst compared to nashors for example. also nashors ap ratios got nerfed so it’s better as a mid game item rather than a rush

[@ewar777]

IT WORKS AGAINST EVERY TEAM? OR BEST WE COULD BUILD CONQUERROR FOR ANOTHER TANKY TEAM?

[@marcelinehvh]

This build is mostly good for 4 or 5 Squishies cause the only place where your team will know what to build or play is Korean solo queue, I've been testing a conqueror build with nashors tooth, rift maker, spirit visage

[@Nokiya]

"unique build" = builds the most common items lol

[@SarosEreshkigal]

Fiddlestick analysis pls, from the best Fiddle main ofc, new terrains new gank angle pls pls pls

[@terrixxa9027]

I testet Lich bane with shadowflame u always get more value from nashors into rabadons u will always deal more damage no matter what combo you use u can test it yourself

[@elykalou]

Now Kat is at the top. And making her a assasin again. We eat good Kat´s OTP´S

[@Funxion_]

Vex isn't a counter?

[@BumboBoy]

Kat has always been an insane snowballer. Now she doesn’t really even need early kills. Kat is busted rn.

[@Gilbert12321]

tbf there are so many things that are busted, but yeah, kat is def a problem

[@hugo7124]

i got her legendary skin and ill practice her

[@AllStarKingD]

3:08 Kat is BROKEN

[@ShinmenTakezoVgbnd]

Can you do ekko next?

[@Efe94632]

That champ is trash since s12 and will be till they revert items and durability stats to s10. S10 was the last time this was actually somewhat balanced and most champs were good.

[@nowayshay]

Love to try Kata out but that would mean spending most of the time fighting with toxic flamers rather than actually learning her combos.

[@miniminoto8523]

Katarina would only appear in the pro scene if she was extremely broken, she is basically a SoloQ champion, she doesn't win any lane (even with good matchups for kat in competitive they would just farm and out scale her), CC kills the champion, in a scenario coordinated with calls she would die the second she steps into the fight. Having said all this, I would also really like to see it on ProPLay.

[@ErikHosteter]

i tried it in ranked, fed every time.

[@khangphan6764]

I'm scared of Ekko :(

[@orderofshadow]

no stormsurge? that's weird..

[@trenza2566]

omw to 0/9 on my next ranked game

[@user-mu6py7yw5e]

"even at late game, Squishies can't withstand the burst." No shit Sherlock

[@bendeguzolah]

literally the champ is about perma roam after lvl6 and get fed then one tap everyone

[@timaxenlmao9198]

well that is a assasins task to kill those who r a big problem and kata is well made for it still very skillfull

[@ludwig1672]

some common mistake i see, laning against champ like kata or zed, burst kill that they do not bring exhaust, or laning with CC guarantee kills like zoe they do not bring cleanse

[@roohni2226]

Easy to play around exhaust i imagine. And even moreso for kata who can just E out. Cleanse sure

[@nicklasveva]

I don't like that Katarinas passive gives all her basic abilities a refresh and that her E gets almost instant refresh (depending on level) when collecting a dagger. Just getting one kill snowballs this champion so hard in teamfights. The only counter is hard CC and not dying. And hitting hard CC on a Katarina that is teleporting all over the place is not easy.

[@_xMiru_]

If hes a god then jackson is the Goat.

[@killuaenthusiast]

Jesus fucking Christ this is why I fucking ban Kat every game. My brain can’t keep up with this champion

[@TheJankijs007]

Katarina on enemy team xD

[@Maxae]

An enemy Katarina tried the build, won a line against an Oriana, but they still lost the game, since Miss Fortune and Jax from my team hit a lot to the point that Katarina did nothing in the team fights, The funny thing is that they had the same amount of items, but the scaling of both Jax and Miss left her far behind.

[@dakterbanan]

like kata was ever weak, whenever they drop new items kata just builds them all and somehow works

[@B8llie0]

Kata had like 46 % wr it's literally impossible to win lane with same skill and her carrying potential was the same as akali or zed that had way better early game. She also needed to be ahead to do something because her first item required a lot of gold and before that she did like 0 dmg. Just saying...

[@user-nv5uz4be7v]

as a NON kata main anywhere above d2 kata is unplayable unless you are significantly better than your lane opponent

[@katama_1]

Yeah man the brain rot on you I'd strong.

[@katama_1]

@@B8llie0"unless you are significantly better than your lane opponent"

[@DarkAlice]

That's why she's consistently been in the Pro scene, right?

[@tranpaul4550]

Get pumped up by this video, end up 2/12/8 in rank Dont be like me

[@tenroy6]

Kat mains: OUR CHAMP IS SO WEAK *Kat exsists and is one of the most broken things since her release originally.*

[@felipepdm]

man what is ldh?

[@LoLDobby]

LianHuaDao = LHD

[@ChimkinSendwich]

Every Kata main saying Kata is useless underpowered and dead 😂😂😂

[@onlineuser1990]

Oh a kat video here we go again "i die to katatina which means kat op champ riot nerf plz"

[@manpreetgill5976]

LMAO