Actually. In my exprience I've had tons of trouble dealing with Katars when I have Axe thanks to the ridiculous mobility and low cooldowns on the Katars. Usually in situation where I have deal with Asuri and the amounts of forces and low on miss recovery with her sigs.

Thanks to the almost crippling nerfs on Axe that have continued to occur with every single balance patch it feels as if the devs are on focusing the winrate of the two outliners of "axe" Brynn, and Jhala. Whom in diamond play as far as I've seen or care to see are played very defensively and oppessively.

Only relying on Axe SIGS to kill rather then the actual axe itself or using cDodge away - SAir to continue making distance. Axe when used on slower more bulkier character continue to suffer thanks to these changes because thanks to increased viable recovery on light attacks there's a unreasonably large gap for punishment when it comes to Axe, in fact, I feel that people who complain about Axe just don't know about these simple weaknesses are either not up against the 2 less played characters or constantly face the 2 blantantly busted characters with sigs that can hit stacked and have high kill potential.

Characters like Teros cannot hit stacked with his DSig which gives him a severe disadvantage when dealing with speedy characters that can close the distance then back away quickly enough to not get hit by the resisting blunt. Barraza who has only one stacked strike which is one his DSig that comes out extremely slow despite having very little kill potential and being extremely situational but generally useless. For if anything the gap for Axe's light attacks recovery should be reduced closer to a fixed rate to decrease the gap on these moves.

Lastly the game needs more movement options to close the gap between speedy and slow characters.

TL;DR The game needs movement options and a higher gravity. Axe needs another rework to fix the large gap between it's slower wielders and it's more dexitorious and speedy character. Katars needs a rework as well.