Caitlyn's ultimate needs more reliability

Spheracul··2 votes·483 views

She's so incredibly outdated right now, most matches i see her contributing nothing, i feel like every other adc outclasses her right now. Back in the day she was the safe lanepick/win champ who outranged everyone and was messy to go against, oh and the legend says, she countered vayne.

Anyway, what i'm most annoyed with is her ultimate, the completely useless ultimate 86.345% of the time, it's obvious this ability was taken dircetly from DotA's Dwarven Sniper, and to add some originality riot made it blockable which makes it (in my opinion) useless, i mean she's a rifle expert sniper lady and has a slow as f execute ability that can be blocked by 200 hp braum if the player can react faster than a sleeping sloth. Executing/sniping enemies should be what cait is good at, yet jinx can aoe execute way better than cait, and the enemy might not even know where the hit comes from, i mean really now?

Since i've been writing this discussion for 5 hours now while simultaneously playing, i'm just gonna get to the part where i make suggestions for changes.

  1. Remove the blockability/ make blocking reduce damage by X% for every champion it passes through
  2. Make it an instant cast/an enhanced autoattack which could crit(with reduced crit dmg) and apply onhit effects.
  3. Remove the indicator; i mean really, it's a sniper shot it shouldn't be "hey you, i will shoot you now, from right over here"
  4. Make it % max health true damage (just kidding, enough of that bs) One of these should really happen and would make the ulti more reliable and give caitlyn the signature she needs, because right now, whenever i see her i expect her team to lose because she brings nothing into game compared to other adc-s.

5 Comments

Critmaster Garen4 votes

chunking 2/3 of a squishies health with a long range point and click ability has to have some downsides.

MisterHealYoGirl1 votes

I'd assume that Caitlyn has some love coming to her in the upcoming marksman tweaks.

TyroneWatermelon1 votes

Wtf m8? Caitlyn is already cancer bot lane,specially the mains,it's impossible to outrage them with no matter which champ,and they never get denied

WolfChases1 votes

Her ultimate isn't a problem tho, it's fine because it's long range point and click ability that can secure you a few kills even if you are behind as heck.

The main problem with Caitlyn is that even tho she's the best early game ADC she simply gets out scaled by other "Weak early game" ADCs like Vayne, and Tristana faster than she should. Cait is similar to Renekton, if you get an early kill you will dominate early game but if you get killed once you are screwed as hell. Anyways, games are longer than before due to viable tanks, juggernauts and devourer which means that even a good Caitlyn will get out scaled hard by Vayne, Sivir, Trist, Jinx, etc and that's GG,, by the time Caitlyn do 4 AAs late game Vayne will annihilate someone.

Not to mention that Caitlyns Q deals less damage than her AA late game which sucks balls.

Rabid Husky1 votes

lemme bring some counter argument into this.

  1. league and dota are both based on the same mod that started mobas plus alotta champs can draw parallels with eachother, so ya kinda true cait is based with dotas sniper, however the blocking is something called counter play if a enemy champ is smart enough to get in the way of the bullet then denied considering it will hit even if you tp somewhere or recall you will get shot.

  2. jinx needs to distance and be accurate with that shot, so its a bit better in damage, but not nearly as reliable since her ult suffers the same weakness plus another, moving! that's right you can move a bit to the left and you can make it completely miss you unlike cait where if she has her sights on you that's it call a friend or make your will.

before i get you your points i would just like to add not only is the marksmen update coming but cait is extremely more viable than alotta other marksmen shes really a teir down from jinx, trist, and vayne while some other marksmen can't even compete. now that that's said your points for buffs.

  1. she would be kinda broken if they did that i mean you live with 50 hp your friend blocks it and you still die who is she graves? is she draven or ez? if it was dodge-able i'd agree but its lock on garenteed damage

  2. again broken 100% crit triforce plus passive it'll be a undodge-able gp barrel that with your first point would mean you are dead no matter what especially late game

  3. again readability and counter play there's nothing you can do about caitlyn ulting you without a support who's paying attention, "i'm ulting you you can't dodge it and since you can't see it there's nothing you can do no one can save you now" think about gameplay

  4. don't even joke about that

she brings nothing? i'm sorry do you even play her? she has the longest base early game attack range, her q is reliable poke since she can just throw it out and doesn't say here's my q like varus does and it moves faster, her w is a revealing root that she can place 3 of anywhere that also has a small dot, she has mobility her e is a skill shot dash that if the net hits someone they get slowed and she gets pushed back this also pushed her through thin walls like the wall of dragon or baron pits, and her ult that no matter where you go or what you do if a ally has a team mate at the ready and is fast enough to get in between you and him will always hit. soo what doesn't she bring to the role of adc, in my opinion shes right there with ashe kogmaw and varus as solid b team champs with kalista jinx vayne and trist being the a team

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