Can something be done about Caiyltn already?

hudzell·12/17/2016, 11:19:49 PM·101 votes·3,675 views

Seriously, she's been chunking people for half their fucking health with just an IE for at least 5 patches, at most I'd say around 10. The last time she had a balance change was 6.4, which was back in February. That's possibly almost 10 months of being chunked by this bitch when she only has one item.

Here's some ideas

  • Make her traps disappear under towers 10 seconds after being placed
  • Nerf the damage scaling on her W headshot empowerment from 70% AD to 60% or 50%
  • Remove headshot damage scaling off of crit chance
  • Remove pointless bonus attack speed on passive
  • Make her traps not reveal you for nine fucking seconds and instead for something like 5 seconds

And she should be okay.

88 Comments

ChaddyFantome12/17/2016, 11:58:40 PM25 votes

Caitlyn's headhshot scales with AD, crit chance AND bonus Crit Damage. It basically scales 5 time as hard with just IE.

it's stupid.

Why would you make it scales 2 times with bonus crit damage? that is just way too much doubling down on power for such an easily accessed conditional auto attack.

with 1-2 items, she is dealing over 1k damage on headshot, and that shit is affected by LifeSteal! with runnans she can stack that shit super fast and can hold on to it forever unlike Jhin.

and that's just her PASSIVE.

She also has one of the safest dashes in the game via her E which not only pushes her back but slows and reveals targets and gives her a free headshot, her traps which not only provide disgusting amounts of zoning but very easily and hard to see in teamfights CC...and free empowered headshots.

Her ultimate is whatever, but none can deny the overall potency of a point and click super long ranged spell.

Did I also mention she has the highest auto range of any champ in the game making her a potent lane bully and very safe?

Something needs to give.

Rebonack12/17/2016, 11:29:14 PM16 votes

Nid's traps get spoiled by minions. Teemo shrooms and Jhin's flowers get revealed by towers so you can destroy them. Neither of those things are true about Cait's traps.

fuffychan12/18/2016, 12:03:01 AM12 votes

Or you could stop being bad and walking on clearly obvious flashing red traps.

But thats none of my business.

Existential Bard12/18/2016, 6:20:30 AM8 votes

I'm sorry but these Caitlyn threads are funny. Just walk around the traps....

I do feel that a fair nerf would be to increase the mana cost on using the traps though.

Nipsahoy12/18/2016, 3:42:14 AM6 votes

Caitlyn is fine. She's strong in the laning phase, weaker in the mid game, and solid late game. The only time she's oppressive is if she gets ahead early and gets a bunch of kills and is still powerful during the mid game because of it.

Danjeng12/18/2016, 12:41:49 AM5 votes

Holy shit! I thought you were joking or exaggerating when you said 9 seconds. Now that is ridiculous. LoL is a fast paced game, and getting true sight over a target champion for that amount of time is extreme.

Lady Hammerlock12/18/2016, 1:16:26 AM5 votes

Do people still not understand why she has that bonus AS on her passive? Christ dude

HazyCloud712/18/2016, 12:40:25 AM3 votes

They should remove the ability of runaan's hurricane to stack headshot procs quicker. This alleviates what is suppose to be her weakest point (mid game) too much imo. Compensate in other areas if necessary.

God Raijin12/18/2016, 3:56:46 PM3 votes

Caitlyn is just one of those champions...She wins lane while out-scaling many of the other marksmen, she has some of the longest range on her skills and autos, on top of that, she even has an escape. She's honestly been one of the top 3 strongest marksmen since she got reworked. It's funny how many champions that have "sat in her position" get nerfed after one patch or two. Either riot's balance team is completely clueless and actually thinks she is fine, or they intentionally WANT her to be strong right now. I just find it strange that they would "want" to give her the spotlight for so many patches.

MeBuffULongTime12/18/2016, 11:01:43 PM3 votes

If RITO even just did something about the traps I would be thrilled. I get that she is supposed to be a siege/long range ADC but her ability to corner the opponent bot lane under tower is ridiculous - Thresh

concon6012/19/2016, 12:54:48 PM3 votes

All you have to do is play a lane bully into her. My favorite is Varus, he pokes her out so hard and with his w passive he destroys her. He just need a tanky support to eat up her q and tank her ult. Pretty solid pick into Cait

GULAG 4 U12/18/2016, 1:32:09 AM3 votes

what about headshots not critting for 2700 damage?

Blakiepug12/19/2016, 6:24:31 AM2 votes

There are way bigger problems than Caitlyn right now tbh: Jhin LeeSin Shyvana Twitch Vayne Yasuo And to some extent I would even say Velkoz but most might not agree on that.

No offense, but it really bugs me how you guys keep clamoring for Caitlyn nerfs when Jhin has been dominating bot lane all season long .

lolipopevelynn12/18/2016, 11:10:46 AM2 votes

The fact that they gave her 6 traps to be out at once is what broke her. Far better when it was just 3.