Does anyone else dislike Headshot?
It seems convoluted when you look at the numbers, much too easy to access when you look at her in play, and completely separate from any similar attack enhancements in the game.
Compare Headshot to Spinning Axe, Ranger's Focus, Mystic Shot, Fishbones, Bio-Arcane Barrage, Lightslinger, Love Tap, Spray and Pray, Harrier, or Kindred's Mark (no seriously, do it).
None of them have such a high intricacy with Critical Strike Chance. They all just enhance your damage through basic attacks in their own unique ways, usually based on Attack Damage or Attack Speed. Sometimes they only synergize with one or the other. Jinx and Lucian are the only ones slightly affected by Crits.
Now look at Backstab, Bladework, or Whisper. They all give guaranteed Crits, but if you do Critically Strike it just overrides the lower number. They don't stack.
And yet Headshot is something in between guaranteed crit and bonus damage. It's based on Critical Strike Chance and Damage but it isn't a Crit. It synergizes with Attack Speed, with Attack Damage, Crticial Strike Chance and Critical Strike Damage. In short, it does everything those other enhancements do (barring Kog'Maw and Kindred) but better. Why is Caitlyn special in this regard? What deficiency does she have in her kit that permits her this hyper synergy with Critical Strike Chance? What is so special about her identity that she has to have this?
Draven is a performer. He wants to be flashy. Doesn't that fit thematically to Critical Strike Chance? And yet his Spinning Axe doesn't get this special treatment.
Jinx is crazy. She wants to destroy things with big explosions. Why doesn't Fishbones get bigger explosions when she crits?
The two champions who do have such a special relationship with Critical Strike Chance are Jhin and Graves, but that's only because they have a completely different attack pattern than traditional Marksmen. (And then there's Ashe, but she's 'k.)
The only other exception to this rule is Vayne. Her Tumble has bonus damage on hit, but that damage is affected by crits for some godforsaken reason.
So why not just give Caitlyn one of these two options, a guaranteed crit or bonus damage? It would still be a strong passive, she would still buy Critical Strike Chance (she's a Marksman, she doesn't have free will) but she wouldn't be so efficient (and I mean that in a bad way, in a very bad way).
... alternatively, you could give all other Marksmen the same treatment and it could be an aspect of their class, no matter how disgusting it may be.
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does. Caitlyn doesn't have an AS steroid and AoE autos like
does. Caitlyn doesn't have an AoE ult with massive damage like
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get true damage and bonus AD from attacking? Renekton is a vicious warrior who wants to get in and chop up opponents like
. Why doesn't he have it too?"