An idea to buff Cait without making her early godlike, but buffing her late.
tl;dr: Buff the AD ratio at later levels to add some extra power to Headshot without making her crits be too obnoxious to deal with. She currently sits at 48% WR in every ELO, which is honestly not as bad as I assumed it should have been.
The main issue with her right now is the absence of the 250% crit damage that was removed from IE. With how her builds require her to not get 100% crit to deal damage currently, buffing the crit ratio could work, but I feel could be problematic late game with how IE is.
The other idea is upping the AD ratio on her passive to make up for it. It currently sits at 75% at level 7 and 100% AD at level 13 for late game Cait, and Cait wants to get the full power out of her passive, but she's forced to build a lot of AD, meaning she cant be full crit. So i'm thinking maybe her ratio could go up from 50% / 75% / 100% AD to 50% / 100% / 150% AD, or 55% / 90% / 125% AD.
This makes it so she isn't suffering from not having 100% crit like she use to, and if she tries, it won't do much for her. Doing buffs like this makes her build crit, but doesn't punish her for building more damage than crit. Originally she wouldn't be punished because crit never was doubled by IE, and as explained above, the 50% extra crit damage she would gain from old IE was what kept her building full crit and not suffering for it. Who thinks this might be a good idea or not?