Just Played with a Cait

SFHFWill·6/3/2016, 12:11:36 AM·4 votes·646 views

I'm not high ELO, don't profess to be know all be all guru. However I just played with a Caitlynn as ADC and I have some concerns about ADC balance.

It was a really long game, everyone had full items.

Big team fight broke out, Malphite and I (Aatrox) went in killed Luc and Lux but died to Voli and Quinn (she was top). The whole fight plays out and we all die but our ADC and their jungle, Voli.

He proceeded to walk to the inhib and auto it down from near full hp while Cait with six items, AA'd the whole time, non-stop. He walked away without his passive even triggering b/c he never went below 50%. The inhib was at full hp.

Her build was IE, Hurricane, Rapid Firecannon, Mortal Reminder, Blood Thirster and Bezerker Greaves.

What is the point of her being the game at that point? We had a Malphite, Aatrox and Rek'sai and Ekko as well. Luc would shred the crap out of us before he dropped and I had Randuin's Ninja Tabi, Malphite was 100% armor stacking with support item. Rek'sai was HP stacking with Randuin's and Luc would do so much damage before he died, normally just his ulti before we closed and just Malphite ulti + Aatrox Q. He'd die right after or in the middle of his ulti, but we'd all take a huge chunk of damage. Their team literally ignored Cait and just let Voli tank all of us plus her til Ekko and myself died.

Once I died, once Ekko died, he could just stand there and just never die to her damage, ever.

How is this balanced? Did she have a bad build? Is it suppose to be like this?

15 Comments

BastionKross6/3/2016, 1:24:40 AM3 votes

Cait trades damage for safety and range, so watching her attempt to bring down one of the more tanky champs in League can be painful.

MunchCrunchLunch6/3/2016, 1:15:59 AM2 votes

volibear is broken. thats why. he needs to get nerfed into the ground.

Defended6/3/2016, 12:32:30 AM1 votes

As a Caitlyn main i can confirm that her build is correct.

Hurricane IE rapid mortal reminder and bloodthirster are alll good items. MAYBE she couldve put a ghostblade instead of bloodthirster but if ANYONE would have had a thornmail then it wouldnt be a better choice.

Champions like Zac Amumu and Volibear are for some reason extra tanky. I do not think Caitlyn is a good choice against those champs and i hate picking her into those supertanks. You should see Caitlyn vs rammas its horrible.

Even ashe and MF are bad picks against them too. No the caits build was good.

Caits not a tank killer like that.

Hige6/3/2016, 3:06:51 AM1 votes

well there's a few things to consider here.

1.- Cait, while being a good marksman, her power is focused primarily on her headshots, if she was just AAing a volibear on her nexus without trying to force him into her traps or net then she wasn't a very good cait and she was loosing a LOT of dps by just AAing a TANK

2.- Builds, see, a good marksman doesn't build the same items all the time, we are supposed to adjust, Mortal reminder is good IF you are ahead, because you ensure Voli won't miraculously live on his passive, but Lord Dominik's gives you 15% increased damage from targets with more HP than you meaning that if you're behind the best choice is Lord Dominik's

also, knowing voli, he had to have a warmogs and possibly a sunfire cape, meaning that he had a lot of HP and cait had... Bloodthirster, when an enemy stacks HP you need to go for a Blade of the ruined king or you end up tickling, see? if she had BotRK she could bring his hp down on ~12 hits (give or take), but since she had a BT she was clawing at voli's hp and hp regen without anything as a backup

3.- Volibear, well, he is on the OP side currently, but his OP part is actually teamfighting, not bringing down structures (he can't bite those), still, if he was too much ahead it's a pain in the ass.