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Why is Cait, a hyper FUCKING carry, strong early?

chipndip1··7 votes·789 views

Or rather: Why is Cait, a champ that's strong early, allowed to fucking HYPER CARRY LATE?

Make Trist a hyper carry again and give Cait the Trist treatment. Cait going hamm from over yonder, only to feel whimpy for a bit, only to come back with double the fucking pig product is getting annoying. I'd ban her if Lucian wasn't blatantly ridiculous.

Side note for "Trist IS a hyper carry" commenters: No she isn't. They removed her Q cd reducing mechanic and nerfed her late game AD for her rocket jump resets, which we all know that non-tank dives fall off as a strat come late game due to the increase in scale of LoL fights as time goes on.

7 Comments

AFilthyCaitMain5 votes

Jesus christ im sick of people calling her a hypercarry. She lacks the steroids needed to be one, therefore she is not one.

chipndip11 votes

The sheer amount Cait scales into the late game when she's past her mid game slump is basically akin to Jinx's power curve, but more well-rounded. She's basically taken Jinx's place in the game with a better early game and mid game with a similarly powerful late game. She doesn't outscale something like Kog or Twitch, but not every late game carry is the absolute strongest late game carry in the game. She can be stronger than most of the roster without being stronger than other hyper carries, given she's so strong earlier on in comparison.

AFilthyCaitMain1 votes

Cait is nowhere near as powerful late game. Shes average for late game. Jinx has attack speed steroids for days, along with insane mobility. Caitlyn has no way to instantly charge her headshot, which makes it less powerful than when Jinxs passive instantly procs and she wins a whole teamfight.

Caitlyn brings nothing to a fight other than pure damage. If shes focused, shes probably dead.

Jinxs passive is a hypercarry steroid, Twitchs R is a hypercarry steroid, Vaynes R and W are hypercarry steroids, and so on. What does Caitlyn have? Nothing other than her headshot, which takes time to proc and can only hit one person if she has runaans. Ashe has her R and her passive, which can be extremely useful late game, but isnt quite enough to be a hypercarry. I could go on for days about how she lacks steroids.

Caitlyn only gets up to about 185% bonus ad from it. So if she has 300 AD, and crits, thats 1300 damage, not including any armor. if they block 40% of all ad, which is about lvl 18 Caitlyn base armor, thats only about 800 damage per headshot. So yeah. Her headshot does not deal nearly enough damage to be considered enough to make her a hypercarry.

SexyBabyJesusZ3 votes

shes not a hypercarry, although i think her damage early is kind of ridiculous cause of how safe she is plus her stupid traps

chipndip11 votes

Do you not look at what Cait players get to do by late game? She's legitimately ridiculous on 3+ items.

Erockandroll1 votes

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shes not a hypercarry, although i think her damage early is kind of ridiculous cause of how safe she is plus her stupid traps

Cait is weird, she doesn't have the steroids needed to be a hyper carry. But Her classic tripple stat scaling (AD, AS, Crit chance) gives her more dps than most caster carries.

Historically, it was her mid game that was her weakest point. Yet despite the damage low, it's too safe, because of her trap line. (Cause someone thought the ability to max traps at level 9 was a good idea.)

Big Lincoln2 votes

hyper FUCKING carry

go on...

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