Squishy retreating? *Sniped* :3
I usually rush Trin Force, and take it depending of team from there. If I feel this team will easily win a teamfight against us, I go for attack speed first so I can backdoor them. If they aren't that much of a threat when it comes to teamfights I start on Cleaver.
Ghostblade, Starks, Bloodthirster and Cleaver are all good items. Trinity I feel is a must to her, mainly because its synergy with headshot is phenomenal. So generally my full build would be:
Trinity Force >
Berserker's Greaves >
Youmuu's Ghostblade >
Black Cleaver >
Zeke's Harbinger >
Bloodthirster.
Thoughts?
I usually rush Trin Force, and take it depending of team from there. If I feel this team will easily win a teamfight against us, I go for attack speed first so I can backdoor them. If they aren't that much of a threat when it comes to teamfights I start on Cleaver.
Ghostblade, Starks, Bloodthirster and Cleaver are all good items. Trinity I feel is a must to her, mainly because its synergy with headshot is phenomenal. So generally my full build would be:






Thoughts?

Wait so you use sheen/tri force proc with headshot on auto-attack? hmmm ok I haven't tried that. At first I thought everyone who got sheen/tri force was stupid because none of her abilities apply on-hit effects like sheen, but headshot+sheen/tri force has some potential to it...
I don't get why you would get youmuu's early though, I'd rather pick up the individual pieces and let them sit awhile for the extra gold, since youmuu's active only lasts 4sec on caitlyn.
I don't get why you would get youmuu's early though, I'd rather pick up the individual pieces and let them sit awhile for the extra gold, since youmuu's active only lasts 4sec on caitlyn.

I rush sheen, followed by a Zeal :) And I pick Ghostblade for it's active when running, it's active when attacking turret, and not to mention the crit, armor pen, CDR and damage. It's like a bucket of awesome, you know? :)
Working on my guide for her, which is ever-evolving as she's still very new, so any discussion on this would be awesome :D
Now, time to do some arena on WoW :D
Working on my guide for her, which is ever-evolving as she's still very new, so any discussion on this would be awesome :D
Now, time to do some arena on WoW :D

PFP I disagree with you too, and with that, you have two DotA players that disagree with you.
We come from different styles, and if Caitlyn isn't your style, don't call her UP just because of that; she's a great carry and doesn't lack damage, especially with her strong early game.
Really all I see is people on US saying CAITLYN UP, then all the EU and DotA people saying OMFG SO GOOD CARRY; so really, it's just due to a style difference.
As I said, if you can't play the style that suits the hero, you're going to think they're UP, and then you'll probably not play them much, but if you're willing to change your playstyle to suit the hero, you'll start winning games. Note that the PLAYER has to suit to the HERO, the hero isn't made to suit a specific player.
We come from different styles, and if Caitlyn isn't your style, don't call her UP just because of that; she's a great carry and doesn't lack damage, especially with her strong early game.
Really all I see is people on US saying CAITLYN UP, then all the EU and DotA people saying OMFG SO GOOD CARRY; so really, it's just due to a style difference.
As I said, if you can't play the style that suits the hero, you're going to think they're UP, and then you'll probably not play them much, but if you're willing to change your playstyle to suit the hero, you'll start winning games. Note that the PLAYER has to suit to the HERO, the hero isn't made to suit a specific player.
SixSonatas wrote:
Note that the PLAYER has to suit to the HERO, the hero isn't made to suit a specific player.
taric and i were made for each other....
on topic, i enjoy cait thoroughly
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Poppy and I were made for each other :) ;) :P
honestly cait is a very strong carry probably one of the strongest ranged dps carries now! as soon as i played my first game with her i was like aw **** theyre gonna nerf her cause obvioulsy i was dominating from my very first game with her i lost the game but i was a fantastic carry going 19 - 4 - 16 (we lost due to a leaver and an afk who refused to continue playing cause we didnt want to surrender) and trinity force is awesome on her besides sheen and that effect i love the movement speed so trinity force and phantom dancer is GG :P
honestly cait is a very strong carry probably one of the strongest ranged dps carries now! as soon as i played my first game with her i was like aw **** theyre gonna nerf her cause obvioulsy i was dominating from my very first game with her i lost the game but i was a fantastic carry going 19 - 4 - 16 (we lost due to a leaver and an afk who refused to continue playing cause we didnt want to surrender) and trinity force is awesome on her besides sheen and that effect i love the movement speed so trinity force and phantom dancer is GG :P
It can be that SOME heroes may suit your playstyle by offchance (because YOU actually suit THEM), but not EVERY hero will do that, or the game would be screwed up. There will be heroes whose playstyles are way different, and if a person doesn't change their way of using them, they won't be efficient with them. This is what makes the game interesting, you have to actually switch styles if you want to master the game and not a select number of heroes.
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The one thing that's still absolutely disappointing to me is her ulti. It just never deals enough damage to kill an enemy. After like 50 tries at sniping low hp enemies and having a terrible kill rate, I've pretty much resorted to using it as an initiating/HP reduction tool. "Oh look Xin Zhao at 50% HP. Let's snipe him with my ult so I can finish him off with auto-attacks" is pretty much how I use it now.