User blog comment:Willbachbakal/(Champion Rework) Caitlyn, the Sheriff of Piltover/@comment-25228021-20150906115021/@comment-25228021-20150909210005

Then again, she'd be prone to getting tower-dived or harassed under her tower, because her range is just that awful. Plus she'd probably have to forget poking for the sake of farming under her tower, unless she wants to starve and be completely useless because she would have let herself fall so far behind her poke does negative damage.

So yeah, I doubt she'd recover as well as you believe she would.