Cait's attack delay isn't the problem. Her traps and Hurricane stacking made her near pickban level.

Joxcab··3 votes·372 views

Good job on getting rid of Hurricane nonsense crap.

But why nerf AS DELAY (not even attack speed, the delay part) which just makes it feel incredibly bad to play her? That's not even the problem.

Her traps are the problem with how horribly oppressive they are which is one of the biggest issues. She has literally no excuse to ever lose lane provided a decent support outside of jungler influence. Even with jungler influence, she still has an overwhelmingly powerful presence both early and late. Her mid isn't amazing but it's nowhere near bad enough to justify early and late.

There's a reason she was practically pickban in any competent tier of play and has seen play through every single tier at massive amounts while maintaining extremely high winrate.

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alfavhunter3 votes

how to balance her traps

traps can now be walked on by minions/ monsters/ exc.

so as an example, malzihar can put a voidling on it and the voilding will eat the trap

minions can walk on it so she has to take minion pathing in mind now

basically making her traps act like all other traps in the game

Durzaka2 votes

5 traps is seriously disgusting.

She basically makes it impossible to siege against her because she can trap off an entire lane, and if ANYONE steps on them, they are basically fucked.

I dont know why Riot doesnt see that as a problem.

Tyrone Lannister2 votes

What if the traps had health?

KONO RUBICK DA2 votes

couldn't have said better

Azure Hamster2 votes

I really don't see how a 52% winrate warrants all this hate. There are champs with better winrates to bitch about.

I don't mind them nerfing in the interest of trying to get it closer to 50%. But whining about how horrible she is to play against makes little sense to me given there are more OP champs around at the moment. A 2% advantage means you have to play 50 games with her in it for just one of those games to be decided by the inherent OPness.

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Cloud2732 votes

If anything you should be complaining about Twitch. He is much more broken than Caitlyn will ever be.

sit kid1 votes

but twitch doesnt just stand behind a lane of traps to stop anyone from engaging, he doesnt poke you from 1000 range away, he doesnt have built in mobility.

Once you're on twitch, you have him. Caitlyn just bullshits out and hides behind her stupid traps. To hell with caitlyn

Hambone20132 votes

The traps need a way to disarm them. Perhaps clicking on it and after a delay, like rek tunnels, it's destroyed.

Rexxiee1 votes

I dont think ppl understand that her traps are so strong is because her whole power budget IS ON HER TRAPS, THATS WHY THEY REWORKED HER IN THE FIRST PLACE, so she has a niche with her traps on the game rather than being generic and just not good at anything particular.

Look at the rest of her kit and compare it to any other adc, its not good, thats why they cant just nerf her traps, if they do then there is literally no reason to pick caitlyn.

She'll probably go into the 46~% win rate tier after her pbe nerfs and might need a buff, but its better to keep her traps as it is than to ruin them and the point of the rework.

Ralanr2 votes

I think people would be fine with shifting power from her traps to something else. Or at least to see Riot experiment with it.

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