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League of Legends Caitlyn Build Guide

Here is a post about Caitlyn champion from League of Legends. You will find brief information with tips and tips on how to play Caitlyn. Read our Caitlyn build and cheat sheet. In our League of Legends builds you will see the most popular and universal variation of any build.

All League of Legends Caitlyn Skins

Renowned as its finest peacekeeper, Caitlyn is also Piltover’s best shot at ridding the city of its elusive criminal elements. She is often paired with Vi, acting as a cool counterpoint to her partner’s more impetuous nature. Even though she carries a one-of-a-kind hextech rifle, Caitlyn’s most powerful weapon is her superior intellect, allowing her to lay elaborate traps for any lawbreakers foolish enough to operate in the City of Progress.

The Sheriff of Piltover Caitlyn is one of the most popular champions in LoL. Her main role is a marksman and you will see her on bot lane. Every champion in League of Legends has its uniqueness determined by his skills.

Passive
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.

Counter Picks and Caitlyn’s Win Rate

It is great when you know how to play a champion. But much in LoL depends on counter picks. On the stage when you choose and ban champions you should ban the ones that can counter Caitlyn and vice versa if you see that Caitlyn is strong against the enemy team’s carry you’ll need to pick Caitlyn.

Some players prefer to know the win and lose rate of the champion before trying to play her. You can see Caitlyn counter picks and win rate in the toolkit via the image above.

Caitlyn Best Build

Below you can see the best build for LoL Caitlyn which is calculated on the average winning builds in the Platinum+ league. All builds that we share automatically update when new changes or patches appear. What you see below is the build for Caitlyn on bot lane.

As you can see from the build above there is mentioned Caitlyn rune set with the best potential for Caitlyn. You can see what runes are main for the character and which are taken for some extra assistance. Also, there are mentioned minor nodes that you can take to play Caitlyn in League of Legends.

Under the rune set, you can see the best summoner spells used with Caitlyn. The overall tier for the champion is mentioned just next to the summoner spells.

As for the best item set, you can see starting items. These are the items that you need to buy at the start of the game before you go on your lane. Next to it, there are early items, later you will upgrade them to the whole items for Caitlyn build. Finally, you can see Mythical and Core items that you’ll need to focus on to win the game.

Skill order or skill priorities are very important in the game so that you will start winning the lane before you buy any powerful items. The skill priority and order for Caitlyn is mentioned under the items. Skill order shows what skill you should upgrade on every level.