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The following recommendations are for playing Katarina as an Ability Power Carry.
Runes: Magic pen reds, Ability Power / Level yellows and blues, flat Ability Power quints.
Masteries: 9/21, making sure to pick up health and slow/cc reduction in Defense. I found this to be a good balance for allowing me to harass my opponents more frequently and have a little more survivability when close to opponents. You could go more offensive here and pick somewhat more defensive runes, too.
Summoners: Flash/Ignite or Flash/Teleport.
Skills: R, W, Q, E in most circumstance, as W (Sinister Steel) allows good farm and harass. R, Q, W, E when I needed more poke and damage at a range and had a harder time last hitting b/c of being countered in lane. Get one point in each early no matter what.
Items: I've started to really like loading up on health pots in addition to a couple wards. This just gives you so much staying power and lets you be more aggressive w/ harassment since you can usually make up for losses. Wards are obviously good for vision and escapes.
Sorc shoes or merc treads, depending on how badly you'll be punished up close.
Beyond this, standard (non-mana/cdr) items apply. The recommended items are actually pretty solid, meaning Haunting Guise/Abyssal are good, Zhonya's can be wonderful, and Rabadon's is something you definitely want. GA/Rylai's/Gunblade/Void Staff situationally. Just follow the recommended items and you'll do fine.
As far as cooldown reduction -- you never really want to build for it, but it's not bad if you happen to have it (i.e. you killed someone with blue). You can get a lot more early harass thanks to the CDR. It just becomes a lot less valuable once you're snowballing kills in teamfights and your cooldowns are being reset anyway.
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