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Spells:

Heal

Flash

Items

Final Build Example

Core Items

Choose One

Pick It EARLY

Read Notes

Mid Game

Choose One

When full build sell boots and pick one

Situational Items

Ability Order

Caitlyn Passive Ability

Threats & Synergies

Threats

Synergies

Extreme Major Even Minor Tiny

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None Low Ok Strong Ideal

Extreme Threats

Ideal Synergies

Jinx

Extreme

One of the hardest matchups. She has higher range than you with her rocket gun and more damage generally.

Synergies

Ideal Strong Ok Low None

Why to play Caitlyn?

Reasons to play Caitlyn

1] Longer Range, Safer Champion

2] Easy to learn the basics of AD Carry (Kitting, Positioning)

3] Auto Attack Based Champion, Easy to Play

Pros/Cons

+ Strong Early, Mid ,Late Game
+ Strong Laning Phase
+ Long Range
+ Easy to play

- Most AD Carries Outscaling her damage in late game
- Very Positioning Depended
- Most times ult is useless in teamfights because always a tank will absorb the damage

Runes

Runes are stardard AD Carry runes. For some matchups when enemy bot lane has less magic damage (Support Janna, Nami for example) you can use x4 1,34 Magic Resist and x5 0,64% Attack Speed Glyphs. For some other matchups (Support Taric, Shen even Leona) you can use x3 0,7 Armor, x6 0,64% Attack Speed Glyphs, x1 2,25 Attack Damage and x2 4,5% Attack Speed Quints

For the 1st alternative Rune Page the stats are: 8,5 AD, 9 Armor, 5,4 Magic Resist, 16,7% Attack Speed
For the 2nd alternative Rune Page the stats are: 10,8 AD, 11,1 Armor, 12,8% Attack Speed

Early Game/Laning Phase

The main goal is to abuse your high range. You can easily freeze the lane and keep harashing the opponet for every step he does to last hit. Due to fact that your ult can blocked and that you have no burst damage you have to poke enemies before you will try an all-in.

~IMPORTANT~

Many people make the mistake to not use the ult with the idea that is for last hitting a target. WRONG! After 6 lvl whenever you see that enemy AD Carry/Mid Laner is alone with no ally near use it. If you ult a Ziggs before the teamfight automatically his HP goes lower than 50% (depent on your items of course). Abuse your ult!

Mid/Late Game

The key is the positioning. As long as you are in a safe distance from assassins/bruisers you are ok. Caitlyn does the whole damage with auto attacks so the longer you will survive, the more damage you will deal. Be careful to not waste your E early.

E+Q Combo

The E+Q or E+Q+R combo is a smart tool. When you perform it really fast the Q animations starts from where Caitlyn was before she used the E. Also the target in front of her take also the E damage. It's not a hard combo and with a little practise you'll have no problem to use it whenever you can.

Itemization

And AD Carry is very item-depended and the instructions below are not only for Caitlyn bur for the most AD Carries. Some times you will stay behind in farm or the enemies will be ahead due to kills. After you buy your core items (Infinity Edge, Zeal, Vampiric Scepter, Boots) press TAB Button and see enemy team items. Many times you will need to rush Last Whisper even earlier that Vampiric Scepter (you can skip it and build it later if you feel that you will be safe), or you will need an early Quicksilver Sash (QSS) vs an early fed Zed. Always keep in mind what you need at this point of the game to deal as much damage as you can and survive.