A small Caitlyn buff

NapaIm·Sep 20, 2015·2 votes·555 views

As of late, Caitlyn hasn't been in a very hot spot. Her seiging is outclassed by the people who outrange and outdamage her late game, like Jinx and Trist. She pretty much has to win early, survive mid, and then somehow beat a hypercarry late. I just want a small buff to Caitlyn. Can we give her ult some % HP damage? I can't count how many times I have actually landed this on the correct target, only for them to escape with a sliver of HP. It is made to snipe low HP targets, so maybe a bit of love there?

5 Comments

FiveofswordsSep 20, 20152 votes

i think caitlyn is fine. shes my main adc. people have a lot of thoughts about her that are jsut simply false. and ppl have ideas about what the only good adc are which is also simply false. her kit is great and works as intended. an adc should not do damage from abilities late game its all about autoattacks. their last buff was good because she does struggle a bit with mana in early and mid game. People jsut dont play her well thats the only issue i see...they seem to think she is a weak jinx or something...if you try to play her like jinx then it wont work.

her ult works fine. frankly i use it most often when im split pushing and some assasin decides they can 1v1 one and quickly discover they cant...so when they try to run away thats when i ult. in teamfights, you need to know the good positions for cait...for example behind walls is good. for example if your team is fighting for the 2nd bottom tower, you can hang out around the golems. ppl would have a hard time reaching you if you place a trap in the right place, u can e over the wall if needed, you get a bonus if you shoot from brush, and its harder for ppl to block your ult when they dont see you and are sideways. the ult doesnt need to kill people, just chunk them so they cant do what they want....soraka is a good target for example, or a bruiser who wont feel able to engage if his life is low, things like that. theres no actual rule that states u have to ult people who are nearly dead.

A Miss FortuneSep 20, 20151 votes

Actually I think Caitlyn is probably one of the worst ADCs right now, I play her a lot and by all means you can hard carry with her, but unless you play her absolutely perfectly and have a good team designed to support you, then why even bother playing her when you can just play Jinx? Even after playing a game with her recently she has VERY obvious issues.

If you're not ahead, you do almost no damage. Caitlyn has no auto attack steroids besides her passive, which in itself isn't that strong at all after the first 10 minutes of the game.
She probably has one of the worst ultimates for all ADCs and isn't game changing at all unlike other ultimates. You have to stand still to use it, not only does it have pretty garbage range for being a "perfect" shot by a "sniper", but It's EXTREMELY easy to block. Being in a duo lane means that It's rarely useful and even then the damage isn't that great for how easy it is to block out. Encourages her to stand still, easy to avoid, meh damage.
She has one of the worst teamfighting for ADCs and her dueling is mediocre. She can't use most of her abilities in a teamfight to do damage, and when she does It's for self peel. She has to rely on auto attacks (which again don't do much damage since she has only one, weak steroid) and using half of her abilities in a teamfight would hurt her more than help her. I won't say she's the worst duelist for ADCs, but she isn't anywhere near the best. If she can't abuse her high range then she's dead.
Most of her abilities solely rely on the enemy being stupid. Her traps are totally avoidable in almost all cases, her Q is extremely easy to dodge with the delay, her ultimate like I previously mentioned is easy to avoid.

CindikleSep 20, 20151 votes

Her R already hurts a lot. 700+200% bonus AD is a good bit for a very long range targeted ability. Has it's draw backs, but if you're barely finishing the target off, they deserve to live from that much damage.

She could use something to help her late game. Since "early game bully" means so little anymore. Maybe let headshots pierce targets?

FiveofswordsSep 20, 20151 votes

her ult is for initiating

i think a good way to help ehr late game is for headshot to ignore 50% of targets armor while also doing 50% increased damage

II UniiQue IISep 20, 20151 votes

tbh i think her ult is fine but i feel like she needs a buff on her w, maybe have the traps add up so you can place them quickly without waiting 15 seconds or so just to place another. Also her passive should require fewer shots to activate the bonus dmg. If thats not fine then make it to where when she headshots someone their armor drops for a few or she gets a movement speed boost