Caitlyn placing a trap DIRECTLY BENEATH YOU makes 0 sense for both balancing and thematic reasons.

How is she supposed to put a trap under a champion? Does she grab a shovel and remove the earth from beneath them? Or throw them into the air to put a trap under you? This also doesn't make sense for gameplay. Her traps are meant to be a zoning tool. Chaining it with other forms of CC gives her a crazy amount of hard CC that really doesn't fit in with her power budget.

If Caitlyn places a trap directly below a champion, they should have a brief period of immunity starting after the initial delay where traps don't work for 1.1 seconds. Additionally, her traps should not be able to stick around for 90 seconds under enemy turrets, she really shouldn't even be able to place them under an enemy turret at all. Make these changes and there goes 90% of the toxicity. She'd be healthy and balanced and still have a good winrate, but now she wouldn't be oppressing the fuck out of enemies, trapping them under their own turret which is meant to be safe, and she wouldn't be using her trap as a ranged root that only targets champions.

A lot of people are missing the point. Caitlyn's traps are meant to be traps, zoning tools, not a ranged root. The arming phase is meant to be fair counterplay, and it is, except when the chain CC happens and her trap just becomes a ranged root. It not making sense was really just a secondary observation. The issue is using it as a projectile root and taking over the enemy turret with 5 traps.