Let Caitlyn’s Ult Crit

Cait’s ult only doing flat damage feels like an injustice to her character and some wasted potential. Let it crit! This could:

1. Simply increase the damage (still feels pretty boring though)
2. Let it pierce champions (maybe reduced damage to subsequent champs proportional to her crit chance? Where every champ takes 100% damage when she’s at 100% crit)
3. Let it pierce shields/deal bonus damage to shields
4. Let it scale with % Missing Health (a slightly more thematic take than just amping the damage)

Options 2 or 3 would make it feel way better to use in grouped encounters and Option 4 thematically makes tons of sense, and none of these options make her early laning any more oppressive since her crit chance is still low then.

Current Cait ult doesn’t live up to the fantasy at all when it’s so easily blocked and ignored later into the game, and even then is primarily a poking tool. Simply buffing the base damage by another 50 isn’t gonna change that (on PBE as of 3/6). I’d reckon that shooting your target through the bodies of two other champions to execute them after a fight lives up to the “Ace in the Hole” fantasy a bit better.

EDIT: Wanted to reiterate that I’m not calling for absolute direct buffs to Caitlyn. I don’t want Riot to go through with their current planned buffs, and if anything would want any of the ideas I listed above to go along with a nerf to Cait’s ult base damage. Nerf the very high 700 base damage but make the ability feel more satisfying to use.

tl dr; don’t just buff the numbers on Cait ult, nerf the numbers but make it thematically (and gameplay-wise) more satisfying to use