This is first of of my Short and Sweet guides to Victory, this time featuring Caitlyn, currently the champion I am playing and having the most fun with. As the title suggests, my guide is focused on being short and sweet, because I hate reading walls of text.

This build is focused on stacking damage for Cait's abilities while countering heavy tanky-dps teams.

I developed this build after reading several other builds and working them around until I found this one which works pretty well.

Greater Mark of Desolation
Armor Pen reds: a must for most physical DPS champs


Mana regen yellows: More mana regen means more peacemaker casts.


Cooldown reduction blues: More peacemaker and ace in the hole casts.

Greater Quintessence of Desolation
Armor Pen Quints: I changed to armor pen quints since I dont see the health ones as being worth it anymore since their nerf

For masteries you can do the one I posted here or go all the way down support if you desire shorter cooldown on the Summoner Abilities.

I prefer this one tho for the extra armor pen, crit damage, damage vs creeps, and a little extra mana regen to top it off.

If you want to put that extra support point in the neutral creep buff talent go ahead. With my playstyle, I don't get the buffs too often unless it's convenient.

Follow Item sequence and your golden. A couple notes:

If your creep farming early game isnt going so well, grab some boots and maybe a pickaxe before the BF sword.

Swap around the last 3 items to suit your situation(for you frequently will not be able to get the second or third one due to game length):
----Grab the frozen mallet first if your having survivability problems.
----Grab the Madreds first if the enemy team is stacking HP
----Grab the Black Cleaver first if the enemy team ISNT stacking HP

After trying out several Summ Spell combos, the best for Cait, I feel, is Flash/Ghost.

Why? While not as important early game, these two are lifesavers later game when you start being focused by enemies in teamfights. A combo of flash, Net, Trap can get you away from anyone AND even possibly bag you a kill. Ghost is always good for chasing

Other possibilities(Because everyone has a different playstyle):
Ignite
Exhaust

1. NEVER use to start a fight, always save it for an enemy running away.

2. Start lining up a shot with in advance on invis/teleporting heroes (twitch, shaco, kass etc.). they wont be able to escape death so easily ;p

3. Try to get side duo or solo lanes, not mid. You will get many more kill opportinities with in combination with Cait's other abilities within the brush

4. USAGE:
a. place at front of or in the middle of brush patches. will help keep the brush campers out and help line up a shot if enemies step on them
b. The enemy is tower camping? make a small wall with the two traps between them and your minions at their tower. they will put themselves in harms way by going around them :)
c. a well placed trap in a river bush can prevent a gank!
d. a melee champion jumped you? place a trap on your feet and use .90 Calibur Net to get some distance
e. Pushing no where near a bush in a lane? place some traps in the middle of the lane near you. use them to your advantage if an enemy tries to gank.
f. finally, scared of being tower dove? Place 2 traps around your tower and kite the enemy between them. they will think twice before attempting it again :)

5. stand in the back, stand in the back, STAND IN THE BACK

There you have it! Nice, short, to the point.

Always the build I use with Cait (Unless i choose to go a more defensive item route) and Ive gone positive in 95% of my games with her.

Just some words for the wise to summ it all up, Cait is only as good as the tank/team that protects her in the last half of the game.