I don't know how many more competitive games you need to see

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If you have a level one ability it's still not a weakness, you just have to use it less often while still using them just as efficiently, if not more, like every other level 1 ability in the game. Besides one point in YST removes nearly a third of it's cooldown, which no other ability in the game gets that reduction for one level in an ability for a non ultimate ability, which for a place-able unit is pure bull.

And yes of course caitlyn cant actually move your champion, it was a figure of speech. But the traps take up 200+ units, thats forcing you to walk around them constantly, which no other champ in the game can do unless they can create terrain, and the list of champions that can create terrain only consist of Anivia(5 second wall), Azir(3 second wall), Trundle(6 second pillar), Taliyah(6,7,8 second wall) and J4(3.5 second circular wall around target). 3 of those are Ultimate abilities, so we can exclude those, so we are left with 2 left: Anivia wall and trundle pillar.

Trundle pillar takes up a total of 187.5 units and applies a slow, however it deals no damage whatsoever. Cait traps take up individually 67.5 per trap, for a total of 202.5 units (we can safely round that up to 210 because no cait traps will be right next to each other, which allows 7.5 units to move next to the traps. Goodluck with that.), applies a 2 second root and allows cait to get an auto attack off that deals %50'AD + 30 + %70'AD from 1300 units away, while also granting true sight of the champion for 9 seconds. The difference between the two? Caitlyns "terrain" takes up more room, and deals damage which scales very well into the game, all at the cost of having a bad cooldown at level 1 which easily is counteracted by 1 level being put in the ability.

Ok so what about Anivia wall?

Anivia wall takes up 400 units, increasing by 100 units for every level put in the ability. Ok, see look! It takes up more room! And it even has a 17 second cooldown, and provides vision! So this justifies caits traps! Right? No. It doesn't. Anivias crystallise uses 3.5x as much mana as caits traps, on a champion that requires mana to be effective. If we could put the same traps down for the mana cost that anivias wall uses, we would have a 678.5 "wall" that permits high damage. Meaning that caitlyns traps are far more efficient in every way for the amount of mana that they cost in comparison with Anivia. Also, anivias wall lasts 5 seconds, compared to 90 seconds on YST. The difference between the two? Caitlyns "terrain" is more efficient, costs less mana, and isnt an essential part of her kit, unlike anivias wall.

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So, surely the cooldown covers this, I mean like, it's a 45 second cooldown, and thats alot of time, right?

• Again, 1 level extra in the ability= roughly a third of its cooldown, bringing it down to just over 30 seconds per trap (32), which no other non-ultimate ability in game gets that treatment.
• Each traps lasts 90 seconds, which again, for terrain is bull.
• There is no penalty to using these under enemy towers, which is bull.
• Minions do not trigger them, which is bull.
• They cost 20 mana, which is bull.
• You cannot destroy them, which is bull.
• They allow cait to proc her passive and hit you with a basic attack at early levels from 1300 units - away.
• Late game this single auto does roughly the same damage as three, from again, 1300 units away.
• They grant true vision of the target for 9 seconds.
• It's "terrain"(because you cant destroy them) that scales into the game, no other terrain does that, which is bull.
• Caitlyn dosent even need the traps to out damage most adc's in laning phase, yet here they are; an extra addition to her kit, which she doesnt even need to use in order to be effective, let alone terrifying in terms of damage early on, again, which is bull.

You can only have so much about an ability that is bullsh*t before it just becomes stupid.

Her traps allow her to do too much with little to no penalty for misusing them.

They NEED to be fixed.