Caitlyn makes no sense!

scribbles782·Jul 5, 2017·5 votes·552 views

Let's just get this out of the way- This is not a balancing change. It will effect gameplay, but just not for balancing reasons.

Sniper Rifles are generally long range, slow guns. But in most Caitlyn builds I see, there is Statikk Shiv, Runnan's Hurricane, Rapidfire Cannon, ect. I think that Caitlyn's passive should just have something added on that lowers her attack speed but increases her attack damage.

It could either be "Caitlyn has X% reduced attack speed and X% increased attack damage." or it could just have attack speed reliant items like the ones listed above be less effective (at least the attack speed part) so they wil have less gold value, forcing her to buy other things.

All in all, I want Caitlyn to have less attack speed and more attack damage, just because it would make more sense. (Jhin orives that this would work on an ADC)

9 Comments

RalanrJul 5, 20173 votes

She's a rifle user now, not a sniper anymore.

Zane ZephyrJul 5, 20172 votes

Then that would make her a worse jhin and there wouldnt be a reason to play her

scribbles782Jul 8, 20171 votes

Um, there are many ways to work around this...

Give her a bit more AD than Jhin
make her headshots do more damage
Nerf Jhin

If that ended up being a problem that wasn't instantly hotfixed, i would be dissapointed in rito.

AFilthyCaitMainJul 5, 20172 votes

For a rework i agree, but i mean ashe can shoot like 8 arrows in a flurry, and 8 arrows in a volley, so..

Darkdemon653Jul 5, 20172 votes

She literally already does get a lower benefit from bonus attack speed as part of her innate.

RoseburyNoireJul 6, 20171 votes

Is that actually true? I thought I saw something like that a long time ago but never found it again. Also on LoL website AND on the LoL wikia it says she actually has a 15% bonus attack speed with her innate. Nothing about a lower benefit from AS though.

However, her base attack speed has been changed recently (like last patch) so that she does scale less with AS, so the mention of it might have disappeared from her innate tooltip as it is now part of her base stats?

Darkdemon653Jul 6, 20171 votes

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Is that actually true? I thought I saw something like that a long time ago but never found it again. Also on LoL website AND on the LoL wikia it says she actually has a 15% bonus attack speed with her innate. Nothing about a lower benefit from AS though.

However, her base attack speed has been changed recently (like last patch) so that she does scale less with AS, so the mention of it might have disappeared from her innate tooltip as it is now part of her base stats?

The bonus attack speed serves to give her the same attack speed as everyone else before anyone has any AS. Total AS is based on the base attack speed, and hers is very low. It's not noticeable early on because of that bonus attack speed. Once she buys items, it becomes apparent.