Bumping up caitlyn's strength with phage (black cleaver) + furor?

boosted frog·9/26/2015, 7:44:45 PM·1 votes·1,132 views

SORRY FOR THE WALL OF TEXT LOL:

Now idk if other people have thought of this before but..

Is item 3044 and item 1300 good on her? in theory the mini speed boost allows a caitlyn to stick to her targets much better and lets her save her E to escape instead of using it to engage.

Here is the build I'm thinking of: item 3071 item 3046 item 3046 item 1300 item 3031

  • double phantom is good but not essential; need at least one phantom. If you don't go double phantom you can go item 3072 + item 3046
  • last item can be defensive or last whisper/botrk if against lots of tanks (who needs a defensive item if you become a kiting god with phage + furor? jk)

Some advantages of this build:

  • Her long auto range allows her to proc the furor+phage boost at a further distance, so she gets that speed boost earlier (compared to short range AA like graves, if he uses phage+furor he'll be getting that speed boost once he's up close and personal with the enemy which isn't as effective).

  • With phantom dancer (and maybe another atk spd + crit + movement item like statik) she can stick to her target even more. The attack speed boost from phantom dancer allows Caitlyn to quickly auto to get her speed boost and therefore can gap close. (If caitlyn has low attack speed, she'll spend more time auto'ing an enemy to get the speed boost and so the enemy will be further away once she finishes her auto)

  • Caitlyn doesnt need to use her E to engage/stick on a target with this build (usually). Instead, she can save the E to escape.

  • Finishing phage into black cleaver compliments her passive (I guess? I'm trying to find all of the positives of this caitlyn build). While auto attacks lower the enemy's armor with black cleaver, it also builds up her passive. So assuming caitlyn is auto'ing someone who is somewhat tanky, around the time caitlyn gets her passive to proc (which ignores 50% armor), black cleaver's passive would be at least half way stacked (which lowers the enemy's armor even more). While this is happening, caitlyn also gets a nice speed boost gap closer from phage/furor

  • Red buff on adcs are amazing and its even more amazing with this build (you become a kiting god)

  • As dumb of an advantage as this sounds, she gets a nice 20% CDR (Okay, its not that good of an advantage but sometimes when you have 5 seconds on your ult and a weaken enemy is fleeing, you'll thank your 20% CDR from black cleaver). She also gets another (meh) advantage: she can sustain a little bit more due to the HP from black cleaver (wooooo...)

And then there's some disadvantages to this build (I don't feel like going into this because it's pretty obvious. One of the obvious disadvantage is that Black Cleaver takes up a slot for an item that could be giving caitlyn a stronger spike)

Conclusion:

Cleaver + furor allows her to kite better (and thus can be a defensive advantage) and allows her to stick on her targets better, while shredding their armor (assuming they are tank) so you don't have to use Caitlyn's weird gap-closer E to chase.

Pretty sure I over exaggerate the speed boost that Furor + Phage gives but its still an interesting build none the less.

Tell me your opinions about the build

Thanks!

P.S. Sorry for any typos, mistakes and stuff

1 Comments

tseihei9/26/2015, 8:18:28 PM2 votes

Being that cait has I believe the 3rd( counting kogma) best range, I don't think she really requires the extra mobility.

Usually people go for static shiv instead of phantom early because it has really cheap stats if you include the money from avarice blade it's even better.

Black cleaver also doesn't really give as great of stats to an adc as last wisper does, sice it can take you a while to stack it up compared to assassins.

This build lacks defensive items like banshees/ GA. While black cleaver does give hp, it doesn't give me/armor. One would think armor/Mr wouldn't help an adc much, but it actually comes into greater play due to Shields, heals, and lifestealing.

Also I think cait could actually do better against tanks with a blade of the ruined king over a second PD.