User blog comment:Willbachbakal/(Champion Rework) Caitlyn, the Sheriff of Piltover/@comment-26968928-20150912031545/@comment-1330314-20150918055346

A straight-up buff would imply that I merely improved Cait's current skillset without any sort of tradeoff. In the above kit, I completely gutted her base range and waveclear, removed all of her ability-based damage, telegraphed her damage so that it would take even more time to deal heavy damage than Piltover Peacemaker's cast time (and only to one person), and added both more counterplay and less overall reliability to Caitlyn's damage by forcing her to fire each of her autoattacks like a skill shot in most cases. The above changes completely modify her gameplay and add in a lot of weaknesses she doesn't have now, so I don't see how it's possible to see them as "straight-up buffs".