How is Caitlyn doing right now?

Lightning I··1 votes·606 views

I main Caitlyn and until now I haven't seen anything that puts her in a bad spot.

Her early game isn't impressive but mid to late game I can literally one shot people with a crit build. Her Q isn't exactly that useful in teamfights but my god do those trap headshots force a lot of people to back off from teamfights due to the insane damage they deal. Her E is a nice hop over the wall, slow/free headshot and good for chasing low health champions. Her scaling is massive and with rapid firecannon/shiv/IE combo you might as well call her an assassin. Her ult isn't that bad, taking off far low health targets and occasionally seeing some try to flash from it as they panic xD

Early game you just have to focus on farming and avoiding deaths from ganks. Early game you don't deal very high damage compared to other adc's so you'd hardly get kills early but after you buy IE, statik shiv and boots you can deal a ton of damage. Buying rapid firecannon helps a lot with the quick charge and extra damage. After those 4 items, you don't even need the ult to kill people.

Overall I find her very useful in quickly taking down objectives thanks to the free damage from headshots that work in practically everything now. Traps cause enemies to make positioning mistakes more often and those who step on it will instantly regret it.

With all this in mind, there is something I don't understand: Why does Caitlyn have such low winrate in higher elo? She almost counters no one statistically and her winrate is less than 50% against any champion, except Lucian.

8 Comments

Death by Glamour1 votes

Lot of the other carries need ti be looked at vane for instance is way to strong early and mf continues to be too strong later in the game. Then their is ezreal who needs to be gutted

Lightning I2 votes

That doesn't explain why Cait has such statistics

Death by Glamour1 votes

That other carries specifically the ones that she once countered are simply stronger than her, think that explains her situation fairly well.

And no i do not tgink that she needs to be buffed i think the best way is to nerf the likes of twitch vayne early to midgame and the likes of mf needs a hit to lategame

Lightning I1 votes

I never mentioned any buffs -_-

In fact, I think she's strong as she is right now. From the damage to securing objectives like drakes and towers (I can 1v1 drakes and rift herald at 20min)

But I guess snowball = win, right?

AFilthyCaitMain1 votes

Shes getting outpoked in lane by a lot of other champs, she lost hp from the nerfs and armor and mr from preseason, and her mid-late is not too good as shes balanced around what her early is supposed to be.

LordGeovanni1 votes

What hp armor and mr nerfs the ones that effected everyone equally and marksmen got increased magic resist and hp for it.

AFilthyCaitMain1 votes

her early hp got nerfed

and the resistances affected her badly because now its even harder for her to get good trades off paired with the hp nerf

LordGeovanni1 votes

idk how extra damage to her passive put her in a bad spot which is what people have been claiming ever since she got extra damage on her passive or i think it was the couple of extra seconds (1-3)on her w cooldown when her w couldnt even store 5 traps only 3 that made her bad.

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