Caitlyn is still sub 44% wr in plat + and diamond +

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Pick rate doesn't impact win rate, the average skill level of the people picking the champion does (average games on champion, build used, skill order, etc). High pick rate=/=mostly in-experienced players picking them, neither does a low pick rate=mostly mains picking said champion.

Why does this matter when most sites aggregate data from Plat+ the top 5% of the player base, are you trying to tell me the top 5% don't know how to play their champion to the maximum strength?

The champion that wins more often on an average and when mastered is generally "better" and "out performing" the competition. Not only was Cait not the highest in terms of winning, but she was not the highest for other stats (damage, kills, deaths, etc), she was closer to the middle for all stats other than her pick rate. She even had match ups she would lose hard, now look at Twitch or Draven, they don't have any actual losing match up, their worst match ups are very close to even.

Caitlyn never had any losing match ups due to her safety in even if she lost lane a Caitlyn would be able to stay relevant in the game by farm.

Also "The champion that wins more often on an average and when mastered is generally "better" and "out performing" the competition." Not sure what you're proving with this point

Cait also has one of the highest average games played on the champion, with champions like Trist having less than half the average games played as the champion and still does better than Cait, Xayah has lower games and hasn't been around long and does better than Cait. How is an ADC that loses even with some experience to champions that perform better with nearly none "very strong"?

Because her strengths either require her to snowball in lane or don't snowball at all since the nerfs had hit her mid and late game. Her laning phase is virtually the same all the nerfs to her meant that she now has garabge scaling, with Runaans not stacking and AS nerfs, whilst most players complained that her laning phase was the most oppresive

Cait was only competitive when played by very experienced players, but Riot did not nerf Cait when played at a high level. They nerfed Cait's popular build as her first nerf. Ruunan's and her AS, Ruunan's was so bad that after the nerf when people swapped to Shiv her win rate went up anyways resulting in her getting nerfed again, but again they targeted nerfing the common players, which were not even winning a lot. After forcing the reliance on traps, which experienced players already did, guess what got nerfed finally? Cait is now worthless because Riot nerfed the popular play style before actually taking care of the problem.

No, here's the context from patch 7.11 when they decided to remove Runaan interaction

Because of its interaction with Headshot, Runaan’s Hurricane has been Caitlyn’s best option for area-of-effect and single-target damage. We’re removing this interaction so Caitlyn’s forced to choose which type of damage she wants to spec into. Similarly, we think Caitlyn’s at her finest when she’s sniping enemies with Headshot procs off of well-placed traps. Right now, she gets to have that as well as high sustained damage in teamfights via right-clicking. We’re hitting the Sheriff’s scaling with attack speed items to keep her focused on traps as the game progresses.

This will just be yet another example of 1) why balancing around popularity is horrible and 2) why listening to the community for balancing is also horrible.

Player opinion matters when making balance decision yes but depends what opinions you're talking about, also they didn't decide to nerf her because of her popularity they nerf her because she was straight up controlling a game from start to finish with high damage.