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✔️[10.18] S+ Tier Marksman|Diamond Guide|All Matchups
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Runes:
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2
Precision
Sorcery
+10% Attack Speed
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+6 Armor
Spells:
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3
Standard
![LoL Summoner Spell: Flash]()
![LoL Summoner Spell: Heal]()
Flash
Heal
Items
Ability Order
Headshot (PASSIVE)
Caitlyn Passive Ability
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Champion Build Guide
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PROS
• Has Self-Peel • Great Area Control/Denial • Strong Late Game • No Bad Matchups • Lane Bully
Caitlyn is arguably one of the best marksman to pick right now. She has extremely strong laning power, mainly due to her long autoattack range and out ranging most of the other marksman. Not only this, she is one of the strongest early game laner, she is able to push the lane faster than most other marksman, using her
Q ability from level 1, pressuring the enemies from the start, able to push for level 2 power spike to have the threat of early kill pressure. Making use of her range advantage by poking the enemies whenever they try to go for a minion, this will help you slowly gain an health advantage, over time you can even 2v2 dive the enemy under their own tower once you have built up such advantage. |
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CONS
- Low Mobility -
Q Ability Locks Her In Place- Hard To Comeback - Weak Versus All-In - Weak Versus Sustain
Caitlyn is generally weak against All-In and Sustain matchups, a champion in particular comes to mind is
Senna. She likes to poke and harass enemies as much as
Caitlyn does, except for the fact that her
Q will damage and harass her opponents and at the same time heal herself and any allies hit by the ability. Meaning that whenever she trades, she will almost always come out on top with her sustain. Other champions that provide strong sustain in lane are
Yuumi and
Soraka, actively poking and trading against these two lanes may be a mistake which will ultimately make you lose more health, trading too much and your health will dwindle quicker than you expect when you thought you had an advantage by poking them, so now you would have to reconsider, you either all-in or stay back and farm safely. |
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Why Caitlyn ?I have played
Caitlyn for a very long time even before she became meta, and was not exactly in a great spot but I was still playing her. Something about her headshot autos, her range, , her strong laning phase, her overall kite, combine with the excellent skin designs like the pool party just makes her really fun to play. Besides the fun element, she is a extremely potent pick right now, an almost must pick/ban in pro play. You are able to blind pick her into any matchups, as she has zero terrible ones, there are some matchups that is not as favourable but nothing unmanageable. Not only this, she is extremely oppressive in lane when paired with the right support like
Janna, who provides poking in lane, shielding, healing and excellent disengage tools. At times you are even able to 2v3 against the enemy junglers, and when you are constantly winning lane and pushing, the enemy team will try to group and kill you. Which means they are losing out in their own lane or is giving free space for your own team to make plays knowing the jungler is in the bot lane and not in their lane to gank them.When to pick Caitlyn ?
Caitlyn is an excellent blind pick right now, since she has no terrible matchups. Meaning you do not have to worry about the team composition or what the enemy team pick as much when picking her. You generally want to pick her into something that has short range and champions that you are able to keep at bay. Something that comes to mind is like
Lucian, his range is extremely short and thrives in close quarter fights. While he does have his
dash ability, it is simply not enough to make up and gap close the distance to kill you as you can easily use your
net to get away from him. You may consider pairing
Caitlyn up with a support that provides strong peeling or poke ability, something like
Janna has it all, she provides poking in lane, shielding, healing and excellent disengage tools, but that is best case scenario,
Caitlyn does fairly decent with most of the supports overall so I would not sweat it. |
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ABILITY SEQUENCE |
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Caitlyn's basic attacks generate a stack of Headshot on-attack, doubled when attacking from a brush. At 6 stacks, or 5 while in brush, Caitlyn's next basic attack becomes unstoppable and deals bonus critical damage.
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| Range: 1300 | Cooldown: 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 | Cost: 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 MANA | Caitlyn fires a projectile in the target direction that deals physical damage to the first enemy it passes through, after which it expands in width but deals only 60% damage to all enemies it passes thereafter.
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This is a very strong ability early game, you usually want to use it on the minion wave to gain early lane control. And during fights you can use the E+Q combine, to maximise your DPS.
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| Range: 800 | Static Cooldown: 0.5 | Cost: 20 MANA | Recharge: 30 / 25.5 / 21 / 16.5 / 12 | Caitlyn sets a visible untargetable trap at the target location which briefly grants sight of the area and arms after 1 second, lasting for a duration. After the maximum amount of traps is laid down, deploying another immediately destroys the oldest one.
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This is a very strong objective control ability, if used correctly, can completely stop enemy advances onto a certain objective/area. You can even use traps in the middle of a teamfight, where it is impossible to react to where you place your traps, therefore constantly snaring enemies in place, it can single handedly win you teamfights/games if done properly.
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| Range: 750 | Cooldown: 16 / 14.5 / 13 / 11.5 / 10 | Cost: 75 MANA | Caitlyn fires a net and recoils 400 units in the opposite direction, dealing magic damage to the first enemy hit and slowing them by 50% for 1 second.
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This is your main ability to stop enemies getting on top of you and a way to escape from dire situations. This ability combine with the Q ability, forms a nice combo E+Q at the same time towards an enemy, slowing them down which guarantees your Q hit and then the follow up headshot auto attack to maximise DPS.
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| Range: 3500 | Cooldown: 90 / 75 / 60 | Cost: 100 MANA | Caitlyn locks onto a target enemy champion and channels for 1 second, True Sight icon revealing the target and revealing herself to enemies.
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I usually save this ability to execute an enemy who is low on hp. You can even use it at the start of a fight when your team is chasing down the enemies so that your team can have vision over that particular enemy.
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Net Combos
One of the bread and butter combo that you should know. Is by casting your
net and immediately cast
Q and autoattack to activate the headshot maximise your burst damage. This combo will deal the highest amount of damage in the shortest amount of time. The reason this provides the highest amount of DPS is because the moment you cast your
net you are also able cast your
Q, cancelling the animation of your
Q. This combo will require you to hit your net, in order to actually carry out the rest of the damage, as hitting your
net will slow down the enemy and granting the next autoattack a headshot on that particular enemy, it also makes it extremely easy for your
Q to follow up afterwards.Another combo is that very similar, except you replace using
Q with your
traps. So at what situation should you use this over the higher DPS combo ? You would generally want to use this when your damage is not high enough to kill the enemy but instead you want to CC them in place so that your teammates can follow up with their own damage and CC. A good example would be when you have a heavy CC support like
Thresh and a jungler is looking to gank your lane, and if an opportunity arises do not be afraid to try out the
E+
W combo.
Trap Combos
If you manage
trap an enemy to start off with, here is a high damaging combo you can try. {
+AA+
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+AA} As
trapping enemies will grant the next autoattack on that enemy a free headshot, you can do massive damage if you start off with this ability and then follow it up again with another free headshot with your
net +
Q into your
ultimate and finishing it up with the final headshot autoattack.|
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Caitlyn is an inherent lane bully, due to her superior range against 90% of the marksman in the early game your goal each game is to try to poke your enemies down which will lead to an health advantage which then leads to potential kills. The way to trade in league of legends is what I call trading stance, where whenever the enemies go for a minion, you can punish them with autoattacks or abilities, you will need to apply this often with
Caitlyn and pay attention to the enemies also trying to apply this method against you. Otherwise you will take bad trades and fail your goal of poking the enemies in the early game. Of course, whilst doing all this, you should prioritise getting your own farm first before attacking an opponent, often times in low elo, players will make the mistake of trading too often, going for random all-ins which makes them miss all the minion wave, and in turn you will lose more gold than when you simply sit back and farm. With
Caitlyn, a common problem is that the enemy jungler will come for you quite frequently, since you are a strong early laner that will push the lane by default. It makes it a very easy decision for the jungler to come down to your lane. So, warding is important but in the early game we will not always have a ward available with us. You have to be mindful of where the enemy jungler is at all times when you are pushing up. This will be further explained the map awareness guide chapter.
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Further Example;You may consider poking the enemies even though you know they will trade to heal up. Let us say you are against something like
Ezreal and
Yuumi lane. This lane is inherently very weak early game and by you constantly taking good trades, not losing too much health whilst chunking out Ezreal's health points, you will force
Yuumi to heal, which in turns uses mana, that is a finite resource, this is particularly good especially in the early laning phase because you will soon force yuumi to base to regain her mana. Thus gaining advantage, pressuring
Ezreal even further, by forcing him to also base or make him 1v2 and it may also need to a potential tower dive, causing him to die, slowly building a huge lead for yourself and your team.This will be further explained in greater details and examples in the later guide chapters. |
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Caitlyn does not have great moblity, and will require strong positioning even with her
net ability available once outside of laning phase. It is important you make use of your
traps especially when you have a sizable lead, whether to block off an entrance to the dragon pit/baron pit or blocking off the enemies from defending their own tower, it is important you make use of this. This will put immense pressure on the enemies to watch out for your
traps and also to stop them from engaging onto you and your team. Giving you the freedom to further pressure the enemies and keep them away from objectives. You also want to go through the map awareness guide chapter to thoroughly understand what you can do and what you cannot do once out of lane.
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In the video above I talk about the following concepts:
- Respecting Fog of War
- Hitting/Starting Objectives without a Reason
- Dealing with Assassins
- Knowing what good fights to take and what bad fights to avoid
It is recommended that, you take one of those tips and attempt to apply it in your next game to reap its benefits. Make sure you only do one at a time if it is too overwhelming, otherwise you will not learn from it. Even playing in a normal game will help, it need not be ranked.
In the video above I talk about the following concepts:
- Level 2 Power Spike
- How to punish your enemies with this power spike, or respect it and back off of it
- Knowing how many minions it takes to reach level 2 first in a duo lane
- 3 Clips of 3 Different ADCarry; Tristana, Caitlyn and Ezreal show casing what we have mentioned above.
Make sure you test this out in a normal game first before attempting it in ranked. It is okay to make mistakes, go all out and learn from your mistakes. Best to record with some sort of software so you can go back and watch your own replay to analyse what has happened.
This video is not owned by me but I think it is very well detailed on how to teamfight in general as a carry.
- Direct Initiate
• Create fight or flight response.• Go in 1v5 if you have to.
• Carries DO NOT go in.
- Follow Up Initiate/Hit Tanks
• Tank pressure backline, or tankline.• Forces everyone to use cooldowns/abilities
• Carries stay OUT until tank cooldowns/abilities are used.
- Hit Tanks
• Hit tanks after tank cooldowns/abilities are used.• Forces out backline cooldowns/abilities
• Carries in range of 1 person.
- Kill Backline
• APC flash on backline or finish off tanks.• ADC can dive if no enemy burst cooldowns/abilities are up.
• Tanks can make a flash play.
- Clean Up
• Flashes to kill fleeing enemies, this will ensure objectives are much easier to take without anyone contesting or the potential of throwing the game away.I highly recommend you watch the video, not only just read the text on this guide. The video will include examples and instances where it very much make sense and will sink into you how it actually works. If you have to, make sure to rewatch the video a few times and in your next few games, to only focus working on these things for every teamfight. This may come across as overwhelming if you are a new player, but be patient it will become second nature.
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