Why is Cait early game becomming so fcking garbage?

Ahristocats·Sep 13, 2017·4 votes·580 views

IM SO HAPPY that a hypercarry gets to be so weak in early game

but why is cait nerfed in early game when twitch and trist bullies you in early game if you play a non-broken adc like ashe/varus, then can 1v5 later in the game?

Caitlyn HP per level increased form 80 to 85 Base HP lowered from 524.4 to 450 Attack speed per level increased from 2 to 4 **Base HP regen lowered from 1.1348 to 1.13 **

Piltover Peacemaker (Q) damage to targets beyond first lowered from 50% less to 33% less.

Yordle Snap Trap (W) Mana cost increased from 20 at all ranks to 30 at all ranks Headshot damage increase increased from 10/55/100/145/190 to 40/90/140/190/240 Bonus AD changed from 60% to 40/55/70/85/100% Trap ground duration lowered from 90 seconds to 30/40/50/60/70 seconds

13 Comments

StoryDuckSep 13, 20172 votes

Because they are determined to nerf anything except her traps...kinda. They want to preserve her ability to siege/defend towers with her trap line (which is a good thing!). The problem is that any form of CC provided by a support makes the traps the perfect follow up CC making them OP early with the right support. To this they continue to hurt her early game and give her more late game scaling to try and compensate. They could just make the trap arming delay longer but I guess that would make traps too weak? I don't really buy that but that seems to be the idea/reason behind her consistent early game nerfs.

Trap or a TrickSep 13, 20172 votes

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Because they are determined to nerf anything except her traps. They want to preserve her ability to siege/defend towers with her trap line (which is a good thing!). The problem is that any form of CC provided by a support makes the traps the perfect follow up CC making them OP early with the right support. To this they continue to hurt her early game and give her more late game scaling to try and compensate. They could just make the trap arming delay longer but I guess that would make traps too weak? I don't really buy that but that seems to be the idea/reason behind her consistent early game nerfs.

they nerfed her traps.

StoryDuckSep 13, 20171 votes

LOL, true enough....but nerfed in all the wrong ways. I really do not understand why they don't just nerf the arming delay. With this she will likely be the worst ADC in the game soon...oh wait we can still pair her with Thresh, Blitz, Leona, Braum....any support with CC. They just have no clue what the issue is I guess.

Trap or a TrickSep 13, 20172 votes

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LOL, true enough....but nerfed in all the wrong ways. I really do not understand why they don't just nerf the arming delay.

that wasn't really the issue, it was how long they lasted

StoryDuckSep 13, 20171 votes

You think she would be half as oppressive in lane if she couldn't chain CC with her traps? It wasn't the duration it was abuse of using them to follow up with more CC. 1 CC lands and she follows with trap after and it was almost always a kill with no chance of counterplay, you can't even flash. Duration was meaningless in lane doubly so with so many shield/heal supports these days. It was the 100-0 combos between cait traps and support that was the issue.

AhristocatsSep 13, 20171 votes

lol love how you're being downvoted for saying the truth

Mens Hair ClubSep 13, 20171 votes

maybe they're getting nerfed soon too?

hope so, these champs are terrible to play against

AhristocatsSep 13, 20171 votes

twitch nerf?

hahahaha

ModWulf HelhammerSep 13, 20171 votes

That extra doesn't make sense. Cait is supposed to be an early game bully, due to her having the highest base range

AhristocatsSep 13, 20171 votes

yeah and i guess that maokai is supposed to be a lane bully too for having highest base ad

ModWulf HelhammerSep 13, 20171 votes

What? I was agreeing that Cait early game shouldn't be nerfed

Your comment makes no sense. Having the ability to outrange your opponent makes you a bully, it's why melee vs ranged matchups top lane favor ranged. If you can poke at your enemy without them having the ability retaliate, you have the capacity to bully the lane

AhristocatsSep 13, 20171 votes

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Your comment makes no sense. Having the ability to outrange your opponent makes you a bully

doesn't means SHE IS SUPPOSED she's a lane bully right now because riot didn't know how to balance her, now they realised a hypercarry can't be a lane bully and decided to nerf her early game hard even if she has 650 range