Is Caitlyn a bit ridiculous right now?

Worst Kench NA··6 votes·687 views

I admit I'm not very good at this game myself and I could probably be destroyed by any ADC with enough skill so I might not know a lot about this, but in my games, Caitlyn, regardless of whatever team she's on, seems to do very well regardless of a win or loss. She seems very overbearing to me too, as a champion who can remain fairly safe while putting out face-melting amounts of damage. I know that's the point of ADC's in the first place, but, at least from what I've seen, she does this very well and easily enough to the point where there's little reason to pick anyone but her. Even when Lucian was strong I felt he could be reasonably defeated, but I find it much, much harder to deal with Caitlyn. I know I'm not that experienced in League myself, which is why I've made this to ask those more experienced than I: Do you think she's very overbearing right now? Does she need striking with the nerf bat? How would you deal with, for instance, a team comp of Irelia Gragas Chogath Caitlyn Nautilus (one of my games against her that I've had recently)

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SrbLud2 votes

Caitlyn does seem too OP. But she really isn't. The problem is her range. When engaging 1v1 she will allways put in a few extra shots in you. At best it's frustrating. Close in on her and watch her panic. Be carefull thou cause that e/q/aa combo will hurt.

Michael Sykes1 votes

yep, the same thing I'd say, but that is not easy if she has a good frontline in her team. And a Caitlyn that knows her positioning well is not going to be killed frequently after the laning phase and when she has her three items powerspike

SrbLud1 votes

True. It's really rare that cait is all alone. If i see they have no hard engage or assassins i will pick cait without thinking twice. Just today i had an awesome game with cait. I think i went 13/2/13 or something like that. They had irelia and even she couldn't do anything to hurt me. As soon as she comes in e/q/aa and ali knocks her up. We tormented them. I was kiting the hell out of them. It got to the point where trist had to get a frozen mallet just to stop me from kiting. Cait is my bread and butter. I don't play ranked often but she is the one getting me up the bronze ladder.

Michael Sykes1 votes

even as an assassin it is almost impossible to catch a caitlyn when she has at least two tanks in her team and she is even. Of course I had situations when my botlane won and the caitlyn was a free kill, but that happens rarely. She struggles against hard engages, I love having a malphite in my team to jump in and wreck the backline while my adc melts the enemy tanks with his high dps.

But the team comps in lower elo are bad too often

Sneakyy XD2 votes

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putting out face-melting amounts of damage

Ignoring traps, the bonus damage on Headshot gives her a total steroid of just over 7%. Then, it also lowers her damage by making attack speed not as powerful on her. Ultimately, her damage is no higher than Annie would have with the exact same items.

Boulderox1 votes

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Ignoring traps, the bonus damage on Headshot gives her a total steroid of just over 7%. Then, it also lowers her damage by making attack speed not as powerful on her. Ultimately, her damage is no higher than Annie would have with the exact same items.

Except they both have ways to do damage that you cannot fight against, ie a hard stun. I just feel her net shouldn't proc a headshot... Because a trap-headshot-e-q-headshot-ult is some serious output that you really can't fight

MR KIMCHI SENPAI1 votes

caitlyn traps are fucking retarded

B00B001 votes

also very easily dodged, and if picking into a caitlynn can chose a champ with i don't know like a shield to dispel them all quickly.

Buff Jax please1 votes

Its cause range is op in this game. Every ranged champion autowins vs melee because of range. Caitlyn has the longest range in the game so she also autowins lane vs other ranged champs.

Boulderox1 votes

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Its cause range is op in this game. Every ranged champion autowins vs melee because of range. Caitlyn has the longest range in the game so she also autowins lane vs other ranged champs.

Longest default range, I think jinx and trist still outrange her in the end.

Madra1 votes

I'm a little surprised they didn't nerf Caitlyn's range back when they reworked Tristana to no longer have the longest range in the game at high level. I guess at that time, Jinx was still a popular pick so there was a powerful long range alternative. Caitlyn is just way safer and has way more utility.

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