Caitlyn traps
Caitlyn should not be able to lay traps behind people at 800 range. Traps should be melee range. Being able to put traps behind enemy towers without ever putting herself in danger is total bull shit.
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Traps should be melee... on a ranged champion, who is supposed to be the prime sieging marksman. This makes absolutely no sense.
It should be a whole lot shorter that's for sure. She outranges everyone in trades, she shouldn't be able to even ALL IN from outside auto attack range. If she wants to follow up on her support's CC with a trap she should have to step into attack range to do it.
Traps should have 75% reduced duration when placed within the attack range of an enemy turret.
Also traps need to be more visible when hidden behind a turret.
If you walk into a trap she has placed without being cc'd its really your fault for stepping into it. The range is fine just watch out for her animation cancelled ones.
TL;DR at the bottom
The only issue I have with Caitlyn is that traps don't have a reduced amount of time when placed under enemy turrets. Like, pretty much everything that can be placed by a champion either has a reduced time, or if they have a health bar, get prioritized by the turret first, such as heimer turrets, azir soldiers, etc.
Placing traps underneath people while they are CC'd is arguably bullshit, but isn't exactly the most problematic or annoying thing I've run into league of legends.
Your point about her placement range of traps, seems unjustified though. That would completely cripple the champion. Every ADC (not just specific to ADC's but I'll only reference them for this), has a primary source of damage. For Draven, it's his axes, for Xayah, it's her W, for jinx it's her W and her E. With-out these abilities or passives the champion only has their auto attacks for damage, which for like the first 20 minutes of the game are pretty garbage.
For Caitlyn, her primary source of damage comes from her headshot, this is why she used to have a GARBAGE mid-game. All of her damage was gated behind getting crit chance as that's what her headshot scales off of. While champions like Jhin were really, really strong in past because he could build lethality, making his abilities hurt really early on. People started stacking crit cloaks and shit now on cait and just try to get crit as early as possible and ignore shit like AD and attack speed now as that's what gives her all her damage (After IE, a crit cloak actually gives like 100 more damage than a BF sword, as long as you use your net and traps correctly).
So, basically, if you remove the range on her traps, Caitlyn just doesn't get to be a champion anymore.
TL;DR: Auto Cait's damage comes from headshots, if she loses the range on traps, she essentially isn't a champion.
Please understand her" W" is meant for awareness/escape/sabotage. Only good players will understand this and her "W" is fine.