Hello it's me Misterfirstblood from EUW.

Caitlyn is a high ranged Ad-Carry with a really strong autoattacks and good waveclear.

Today I wanna show you how I play Caitlyn because theres a lot of things to discuss.

P: Headshot
SPEED: 3000
Headshot
Every few basic attacks, or against a target she has trapped or netted, Caitlyn will fire a headshot dealing bonus damage that scales with her critical strike chance. On trapped or netted targets, Caitlyn's Headshot attack range is doubled.

Q: Piltover Peacemaker


Caitlyn revs up her rifle for 1 second to unleash a penetrating shot that deals physical damage (deals less damage to subsequent targets).

W: Yordle Snap Trap


Caitlyn sets a trap to find sneaky yordles. When sprung, the trap reveals and immobilizes the enemy champion for 1.5 seconds, granting Caitlyn an empowered Headshot.

E: 90 Caliber Net


Caitlyn fires a heavy net to slow her target. The recoil knocks Caitlyn back.

R: Ace in the Hole


Caitlyn takes time to line up the perfect shot, dealing massive damage to a single target at a huge range. Enemy champions can intercept the bullet for their ally.

My Recommendation for your Rune Setup is unchanged since a while. I suggest going for Fleet Footwork Presence of Mind Coup de Grace and Legend: Bloodline. This grants you a little bit of sustain for your laning phase, as well as a little damage Booost.

The secondary tree doesnt offer a lot offer a lot of "game changing" runes anyway in my opinion but i personally like to use The Sorcery Tree and specifically the Gathering Storm and Absolute Focus runes to max out your Execeution damage from your ultimate Ability in later minutes of the game.
If you want more sustain you can choose inspiration and take some Cookies and free boots, thats totally up to you.

Its up to you if you start your Game with The Collector or Infinity Edge while the first one offers you a slightly better start and the second one is mandatory nontherless.
If you decide to go for Infinity Edge first, you might prioritize Rapid Firecannon second and Lord Dominik's Regards third to get atleast 75% Rate of Critical Strike Chance.
Caitlyn scales pretty well with all of these stats, but you should consider buying Utility and Survivability Items if you cant Deal the Damage before you die.

So finalize your build with items like Mercurial Scimitar Bloodthirster Immortal Shieldbow Runaan's Hurricane or Statikk Shiv depending on your needs.

- Try to always attack enemys when go for lasthits and move out of their attack range afterwards
- Give your jungler a good pull to stack your Headshot and harass your Enemies
- Try to Headshot enemies instead of minions while laning. Even if they auto attack back you should be able to win the trade.
- You can jump over walls with your 90 Caliber Net
- You can make a double headshot when stacking your Headshot and using 90 Caliber Net after
- When you get chased place some Yordle Snap Trap between your enemy and you. Remember they need some time to be activated but if they are slowed or CC'ed you have enough time to escape safely or turn the fight like I did in the following video.
- The amount of Stacks gained from attacking an enemy out of a brush is doubled, so keep that in mind and if a brush is warded anyway attack from it instead of attacking from the lane.
- If you don't lane against a tank support feel free to use your Ace in the Hole to poke. Otherwise just use it to execute enemys. Don't use it in a trade because the animation needs too many time.
- In Lategame dont use your Piltover Peacemaker/ Ace in the Hole in Teamfights. Your DPS when auto attacking should be better.
- Place some Yordle Snap Trap in botside Brushes to avoid Ganks. You can also grant vision in brushes while placing a trap in it.
- With lvl 18 set as much traps as possible the cooldown will be very short.
- Avoid using abilities in late game since your auto attacks output a higher DPS
- If you don't have vision to land your Ace in the Hole use the Farsight Alteration to make them visible for a short time. Even if they hide in a brush again the ultimate won't be cancelled.
- RED BUFF!! If someone really needs red buff, its caitlyn. I really love this hit effect on her. If you have [[runaan's hurricane] you can aoe slow your enemies by auto attacking. It also will improve your Kiting potential.

- Low Ranged Adc's like Vayne or Kai'Sa(Early)
- Kiteable Tanks/Bruisers without hard CC like Garen
- Bad Early Champs like
- Champs without Waveclear like

Caitlyn is super punishing in early game when played properly. She can trade often and push very hard. It's your job to deny enemies farm and push towers to get advantages for the team in early. If Caitlyn can't snowball a lane she isn't that much effective than other adc's, while the range still helps in later stages of the game.

- Assasins with multiple gapclosers like Zed/ LeBlanc
- Unavoidable Hard CC like Malphite/ Nautilus/ Sejuani
- Hypercarry lategame adc's like Vayne Twitch that can kill you within a second before you can even shoot back

Even though you cant do fancy invis stuff like Twitch or Vayne, your crit multipliers on the headshots have still an amazing scaling and allow you to carry teamfights by your own. If your Frontline peels you and you corretctly play at your maximum attack range, this is still a super solid late game pick.

- Poke Supporters like Velkoz or Brand
- Tank Supporters with Engages like Leona Braum Thresh or Blitzcrank

Caitlyn needs a support to play offensive with her. It's her Job to make as much lane pressure as possible. I don't like Sona Nami or Janna to play with Caitlyn but they aren't bad at all because they got damage buffs atleast. Just avoid Soraka.
I recommend tanks with CC like Leona or Braum.

Sustain isnt really needed, so unless your Nami or Bard outtrade your enemies by their own, i wouldnt recommend picks like Soraka alongside you because you most likely outsustain your enemies anyway (because of your poke abilities)

+++ Range
++ Waveclear
++ Kiting
++ Earlygame
+ Escape
+ Lane bully
+ Easy to play

-- No Base stat Steroids (except Headshots)
- Spells useles in Lategame (lower DPS)
- weaker Lategame at all

The biggest Disadvantage on Caitlyn is that she doesnt have any steroids to buff her stats except her passive.
That doesn't mean Caitlyn can't win a 1v1 against hypercarries like vayne or tristana. It depends on the player, Caitlyns passive Stacks, the first hit, Critical strikes (luck) and Summoner spells.
For example when a fullbuild Caitlyn places a pink ward against a vayne to make her visible while her Ultimate is active and cait lands a first hit (higher range) which hits critically for about 500-700 dmg she's definitely able to win this 1v1.
Anyway you should avoid duels and try to use benefits from your high range especially in Early-Midgame.

Atleast its a very fun to play and strong Ad Carry. You can make great plays with your E and W using it the right way. Also you can improve your last hitting with caitlyn because she really got one of the best auto attack animations so shes able for low experienced players and also for competitive players.