Hey i skiped some parts of your guide and must say that i like how much effort that must have needed. Nice work there and i will read it in detail later.
P.S.: I already played against you :) (Prismatikk) If you remember or not, i was kat and you were awesome. Feel free to visit my guides :))

Gunblade is explained in my guide. It's only beneficial for sustain. Other items outshine it.

I prefer Gunblade because of the slow to land her skills on targets
(plus the damage ofc).

It's probably the elo difference. at 1900-2k I didn't have problems against diana. I played around her skills and basically baited the Q's dodged them and got my own poke off. If you're really a 2.5k Kat you most likely know more than myself about this game so I definitely see where you're comming from. a 2.5k Diana would shit on me.

as a 2.5K kat player I think you underestimate Diana's difficulty TBH. She's definitely the hardest APM to lane against.

Great guide nonetheless, puts the one I made tonight to shame and I'll have to use yours as inspiration to improve mine!

I had a longish post calling you out for down voting the guide out of jealousy but it did not post.

Lolking'd you, youre currently at 1966 with a max of 2087, you havent played in 2 weeks and it shows no Katarina game recorded.

I'd like to have explanation of this guide being featured even when below 2kElo and my guide where i had 2087 didnt even get approved :DDDD

@alcopop the CDR nerf on DFG was negligible, but the damage was not. You boot idea is actually pretty solid. I am going to have to check that out myself.

@Zenasation Evelyn and DFG got nerfed, you shouldn't see her as much, nor should she be -that- much as a threat as before. If you can't crush her in lane aim to be more of a threat when transitioning from early to mid game and you will win more. If you can't kill her kill her friends.

@all I will test out new items and update what i believe the new item path shall be. I've asked for TnA's wisdom and will post according to his beliefs and my own.

thanks for the gr8 guide man. rly helpfull! im just wondering, since the remake of evelyn i see her more and more in the midlane. She roams alot and I ss alot and when i see her leave the lane i warn my team but how do i counter her myself? She rly is annoying and her burst/poke damage is quite similar to kat. i try to heras her as much as i can but most of the time i dont even see her. I do outfarm evelyn most of the time but more often then not i die the first time we clash.

What do we do for CDR though? Do we even need it on kat? I like to get it anyway, because 4 second cd shunpo is sexy. I mean I guess we don't if we're killing everyone and everything, but eh..

Because if CDR isn't too important for kat then DFG nerfs aren't that bad, because the item seems to be a bit better late game (because of the base damage nerf but ratio buff)

I've been swapping Sorc boots for Lucidity late game once I have abyssal/voidstaff to give me max cdr with blue pots.