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Anyone else feel caitlyn is highly overloaded and way too safe of a pick?

Geshultz··4 votes·1,038 views

Seriously this champion gets to have...

Strong sieging of towers with her traps. Godlike laning phase due to her 650 plus range A good late game due to her safety of her mobility on her e + traps and high range and her passive scaling with crit along with her traps. The ability to spam traps at will with no consequences to her mana. The ability to waveclear safetly with her q from long range. One of best mobility spells in the game. One of best ranges of all ADCs in the game. Guaranteed to be decent or good at all stages of the game. Great at peeling for teammates through her traps. Good synergy with many supports cc due to her traps having a 2 second root. An extremely oppressive laning phase... High burst through traps towards mid-late game.

Well her only trade offs are... Weak to all in(Migrated a lot by her net into q into auto combo) A weak mid game period between getting 2 crit items around for 5ish minutes. (Can avoid this weakness easily through her strong sieging with a team or having an early lead)

She is basically the lee sin of bot lane at the moment, but doesn't have a major fall off period that can't be easily migrated through her kit's strengths. Even statistics basically show she is basically overturned at the moment.

http://champion.gg/champion/Caitlyn/ADC

30% pickrate with a 52.53% winrate. No one enjoys facing caitlyn either in lane. She is the definition of what league shouldn't have and is the extact reason tristana got nerfed extremely hard back then. Way too good of a laning phase and way too good of a lategame with a mid game weakness that was gone through either changes to her kit or item buffs.

4 Comments

Emojay1 votes

She needs less attack speed.... cuz no sniper can shoot THAT fast....

Geshultz1 votes

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She needs less attack speed.... cuz no sniper can shoot THAT fast....

I am fine with that. A nerf to her attack speed scaling is fine. Since currently its at 4% per level for which is on par with vayne. http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Caitlyn

Sorioku1 votes

Depends on who you're playing into her. Twitch, vayne, early game Trist aND early game Draven can run into a couple issues due to the range difference. But jinx, jhin, varus (who just recently got a decent buff) and corki fare well against her because she can't push them in as easily.

It also depends on the support matchups of course, but understand that Cait's midgame power dips as she's waiting to complete her crit item/s. Any adc+support combo that can waveclear with her has a far better time beating her when the midgame comes.

She's not op though, keep practicing. Good luck

Cocho1 votes

She's good because the lane bullys are bad. The assassin update made alot of their builds worse. Shit like lucian, jhin, draven, Sivir isn't meta because the ad casters she does good against, got nerfed from fervor. I don't see any jinx players like I used to for some reason, her traps got like 30 mana added to them and she fell off the face of the earth. Nobody is playing ashe, nerfed like 3 times, still good though. Kog has like a 2% playrate.

Any adcs that can do well against her isn't being played because they all got nerfed in one way or another. Caitlyn hasn't changed.

The adcs mentioned above aren't going to shred tanks (most of them), so you can't pick them against this colossus tank champs.

Riot needs to look at colossus, tanks, and the lane bullies in the bot lane. There needs to be a way to punish late game scaling adcs like twitch or vayne. Right now, they're being played alot because of tanks, and the only thing you can really do is play Caitlyn against them.

Her winrate would be much lower if more people played jinx or varus. Jinx just shoves her in. Varus outpokes her and shoves her in.

Changing warlords would be a band-aid fix in my opinion. Doesn't really solve much.

I would hate to see cait get nerfed, because I love her traps when I'm playing her, but they're annoying to play against. Her traps are the main reason I like playing her. A headshot change would effect it too.

There is just no reason to pick a early game ad carry atm. You're too weak early to deal with cait, you can't really punish vayne or twitch, and you're going to have to deal with tanks.

Early ADs need buffs. Colossus is ridiculous. Early game junglers could ruin your early (Vi, Lee, hec) Assassins don't help much either, but they have a ton of their own problems. With a weaker early and Janna, Zyra, Karma being frequently picked, its just worse lol.

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