Talk:Caitlyn/@comment-8506165-20140820152227/@comment-8506165-20140830011801

"her autoattacks scale very hard, particularly due to her passive"

See, this is the kind of misconception I'm talking about. Yes, Cait's range is still great in the lategame. But her AA damage? She has arguably the worst steroid of any ADC bar Ashe (who has none, but great base stats) and also low base attack speed so she gets less out of building it than others. I mean let's compare some other ADCs:

are like Headshot on steroids. 50% AD for five attacks? Yup. Corki's is true damage. Cait's is physical. Although loaded into one shot, which has both upsides and downsides. Not to mention his.

either allows her to outrange Cait constantly and hit with AoE damage on every autoattack, or sacrifice range for ridiculously high DPS.

grants her a lot of attack speed, on-hit Grievous Wounds, and almost 50% of her AD every hit when it's fully stacked. That's like Headshotting every attack. Although admittedly, the magic damage may be less useful depending on enemy MR. Double Up also serves as a pseudo-AA if you want to include that.

And so on. These carries tend to trade safety for damage, admittedly, which Cait has in her favour if that's what you're looking for. But raw damage? Nearly every other carry eats her for breakfast. If they're both getting to stand and AA one target then yeah, Cait's gonna lose to nearly everyone. Now, granted, she probably has a better chance of standing and getting away with it than a lot of carries (range + net) but yeah. Her uninterrupted DPS falls a bit flat compared to other carries' uninterrupted DPS. Not just the hyperscalers, but ones like MF and Corki as well. She's just a bit more likely to put it out. Which again, means she's not bad, I just don't get why people think she's quite as good as she is.

I don't know. I don't really mind Cait being constantly picked, I find her pretty easy to deal with although I'm not a fan of supporting her unless I'm Janna (dat combo). But that's probably just because most Caits I see are picking her because she's "easymode ADC" and play really badly. *shrug* Either way, I find the constant worship of Cait a little peculiar - she was more popular than even Lucian at his height of "OPness", if I remember my LolKing stats right. Was just wondering if anyone else had thoughts on it. I probably sometimes sound like I think Cait is trash, I admit xD But that's not the case. I'm just curious as to why she's so endlessly popular despite not being... well, OP.