Caitlyn - Unorthodox Items

[quote=Jebus McAzn]http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/caitlyn-problem-officer-burst-as-48301 This is a guide that I recently published and there's one thing that worries me. It seems like I'm getting too many basic items early game - the only thing I had going through my mind was "Ok, so I've got a Sheen, Phage, boots, IE, and a Brutalizer just sitting here... Any Trinity Force yet?" Would you recommend I change it to rushing Triforce or just keeping it the way it is?[/quote]

[quote=Scrax]Rush it. Before IE, I'd say.[/quote]

[quote=nand]Why the rush on Sheen and Trinity Force? Your Q spell doesn't apply on-hit effects.[/quote]

[quote=Scrax]Headshot & Sheen proc synergy is AWESOME :D I did 50% of Sivir's HP with that shit :)[/quote]

[quote=Jebus McAzn][quote=nand] Why the rush on Sheen and Trinity Force? Your Q spell doesn't apply on-hit effects. [/quote] Like what Scrax said, it's because of the headshot/sheen combo which just does insane damage. Scrax: Where would Brutalizer go then? Before or after IE?[/quote]

[quote=nand]Just tried out the build in a practice game, right up to the Trinity Force, and I felt the damage was.... very underwhelming. I did everything right as far as I could tell. Charged up headshot, then ran up to an enemy, hit them with Q + an auto-attack to trigger both.. and it dealt a whopping.. 20% of their HP? I had to follow it up by like 10 auto-attacks to get the kill. Of course, nearly none of those were critical strikes so the Infinity Edge passive didn't go into effect, but even if it did (which was rare), the initial strike only dealt like 30%-40% of their HP max, against bots. (For comparison, my typical Tristana build usually deals like 70% of their max HP per auto-attack) Her early game was absolute pwnage, but it always is. Caitlyn's problem is that she can't scale into mid or end-game at all. Your build did mitigate her mid-game problems somewhat, but in end-game she was still hilariously useless. Even Sheen + Headshot ultimate didn't deal that much damage, maybe around 40% at best.[/quote]

[quote=Jebus McAzn]If your Tristana is dealing 70% of a squishy's health per shot, your opponents are seriously underleveled.... :P I have changed the item build accordingly - perhaps rushing Triforce is a better idea.[/quote]

[quote=Scrax]Sorry for not replying as fast, but it seems you've gotten it all sorted out, so :) And yeah, those must have been some underleveled players O.o 70% of their HP? Thats ridiculous.[/quote]

[quote=nand]We're talking about damage versus bots here, keep in mind. Caitlyn deals about as much damage to bots as Tristana does to normal players, which means Caitlyn in a normal game would be effectively useless.[/quote]

[quote=beast mondo]well thats a pretty interesting idea to work on. i see how your damage output might not be what your looking for with piltover peacemaker but i see what you are going at. ummm well i guess i might try it out but it seems very different.[/quote]