Daily Reminder: Caitlyn's Traps cost 20 mana

ForFoxSakes·Jan 18, 2017·25 votes·1,016 views

One of the lowest mana cost abilities in the game and spammable at that. At max level it costs 11% of her total mana pool of puke out 5 traps

14 Comments

StealWolverineJan 18, 20179 votes

Maybe make it like kassadins ult. Makes normal use still low cost but throwing a wall down at once cost a significant amount.

MelledoneusJan 18, 20172 votes

This idea is great.

ForFoxSakesJan 18, 20171 votes

This would definitely be a deterrent to just build a wall mid fight then still have most of the mana for damage

SnowFallJan 18, 20171 votes

You mean like kog's ult, Kassadin gets his benefits with increased mana cost, Kog doesn't

ScissorsNstuffJan 18, 20175 votes

keeping traps up drains my mana faster than Q spam during laning. Somehow I doubt that this cost was a mistake or coincidence

HeaterJan 18, 20172 votes

Yeah it's honestly so annoying when you play against Caitlyn almost every game in ranked.

SuddenAntagonistJan 18, 20172 votes

Yet when they are on my team, she uses maybe 1 or 2 traps every 10 minutes. They're useful little tools people! USE THEM!

OelykJan 18, 20171 votes

Increase mana by 5 per trap. More balanced.

Sraeg2013Jan 18, 20171 votes

Now it costs 13% of her mana to use 5 traps.

Yay, balance.

OelykJan 18, 20171 votes

I said MORE, not totally balanced. Increase by ten mana, Even more balanced.

ForFoxSakesJan 18, 20171 votes

With Nidalee traps being able to be destroyed in PBE caits need to go the same way. The last trap remaining which does not and cannot be disabled with sweeper or control wards but knowing RITO they protect oppressive champs because they want them to be grossly opressive

Nickfer2510Jan 19, 20171 votes

I didn't even know Cait's traps had mana costs this grossly low for such a high payoff in both laning phase and lategame. Yet another reason she is one of my top ban picks.

duckarpJan 19, 20171 votes

The cost is reasonable for how easy they are to spot and avoid. Furthermore, they don't do any damage by themselves, so cait needs to be fairly close. Easiest fix for her traps, so they are not that annoying, would be just to make them destroyed by minions when walked over.

ForFoxSakesJan 19, 20171 votes

"Fairly close" aka 1300 yards away