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Heart Buster
Profile Joined April 2013
Japan32 Posts
July 08 2014 01:53 GMT
#801
On July 08 2014 10:41 Slusher wrote:
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On July 08 2014 10:16 GolemMadness wrote:
My experience with people who don't play ADC trying to play Tristana is that they miss a bunch of CS because of E passive and at the end of the game I've done more damage as support. I don't know what these specialised ADC mechanics are that you need with Caitlyn. You out range them. You auto them when they try to CS. It's not complicated.


imo abusing range is a lot more difficult than using skills, and if you don't abuse your range Cait is p bad.


People who don't play ADC do know how to abuse range

see:
Midlane auto attack trades

Ranged top lane auto attack trades

Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-08 02:52:30
July 08 2014 02:50 GMT
#802
Just played this interesting game where I was this 5200 HP full build Sejuani with FH + Randuin vs this poor Caitlyn. It was fun.
https://twitter.com/SufficientStats
Goumindong
Profile Joined February 2013
United States3529 Posts
July 08 2014 02:51 GMT
#803
On July 08 2014 10:53 Heart Buster wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 08 2014 10:41 Slusher wrote:
On July 08 2014 10:16 GolemMadness wrote:
My experience with people who don't play ADC trying to play Tristana is that they miss a bunch of CS because of E passive and at the end of the game I've done more damage as support. I don't know what these specialised ADC mechanics are that you need with Caitlyn. You out range them. You auto them when they try to CS. It's not complicated.


imo abusing range is a lot more difficult than using skills, and if you don't abuse your range Cait is p bad.


People who don't play ADC do know how to abuse range

see:
Midlane auto attack trades

Ranged top lane auto attack trades



It is a little bit different when the range difference is 100 and not 425.

It also doesn't help that cait has to really dominate in order to be strong. She simply does less damage than any other ADC if she doesn't have more items (or doesn't have an extra offensive item)
koreasilver
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
9109 Posts
July 08 2014 03:23 GMT
#804
lol this proposed Lucian change is a joke
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17922 Posts
July 08 2014 03:46 GMT
#805
On July 08 2014 10:16 GolemMadness wrote:
My experience with people who don't play ADC trying to play Tristana is that they miss a bunch of CS because of E passive and at the end of the game I've done more damage as support. I don't know what these specialised ADC mechanics are that you need with Caitlyn. You out range them. You auto them when they try to CS. It's not complicated.

its not really rocket science to last hit with tristana tbh
if i dont play her for like 300 games then play her again it doesnt take but like a creep wave to figure out

in general this game isnt hard to figure out, it doesnt just apply to adc
Artillery spawned from the forges of Hell
wei2coolman
Profile Joined November 2010
United States60033 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-08 04:13:50
July 08 2014 04:10 GMT
#806
On July 08 2014 09:54 MattBarry wrote:
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On July 08 2014 09:43 nafta wrote:
If you compare her timing to the popular adc champs her damage potential is very weak.She is only better than some others if enemy has no tanks but otherwise she is really bad.

Caitlyn is very safe and easy to play. Idk wtf you are talking about, she is the only AD I can play without feeding hilariously since I don't play AD. Many, many other players feel the same way

She's safe and easy, but she isn't nearly as useful damage wise in most team comps if you aren't getting a decent size lead with her.
On July 08 2014 10:00 Goumindong wrote:
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On July 08 2014 09:30 nafta wrote:
On July 08 2014 09:28 GolemMadness wrote:
On July 08 2014 06:04 wei2coolman wrote:
On July 08 2014 05:58 IMoperator wrote:
On July 08 2014 05:55 wei2coolman wrote:
On July 08 2014 05:53 IMoperator wrote:
ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS GIVE HIS PASSIVE A COOLDOWN LOL

I didn't even think he was that op'd tbh. Twitch/Jinx/Kog/Trist were all popping up in these recent patches.

he's not, that's the stupid thing, ever since they changed BT he's like lower tier than kog/trist and on the same tier as twitch/cait/jinx

The one thing I did like about Lucian was that it was an ADC that non ADC players could play, and not be useless.


Caitlyn already exists though.

Caitlyn is godawful if you don't main ad wtf.This myth is retarded.If you dont get fed in lane as cait you are useless compared to enemy ad until 3+ items.


I agree. Cait also requires a good rhythm and knowledge of lane mecahnics in order to harass and zone well in lane, mechanics which are very ranged AD specialized.

Trist is the AD for people who don't know how to AD. You can't do well in lane anyway, so don't try. You auto shove lanes by reading a guide, all you have to do is right click from 700 units away

This is why I play Shiv first tristana. Farm all day, ignore people.

On July 08 2014 10:16 GolemMadness wrote:
My experience with people who don't play ADC trying to play Tristana is that they miss a bunch of CS because of E passive and at the end of the game I've done more damage as support. I don't know what these specialised ADC mechanics are that you need with Caitlyn. You out range them. You auto them when they try to CS. It's not complicated.

This is essentially what happens when a non-adc player plays Cait. "HEY GUIZ. STOP SUCKING. I WENT EVEN IN LANE AGAINST TRISTANA/KOG/JINX/TWITCH."
liftlift > tsm
Amui
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada10567 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-08 04:43:25
July 08 2014 04:43 GMT
#807
On July 08 2014 10:53 Heart Buster wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 08 2014 10:41 Slusher wrote:
On July 08 2014 10:16 GolemMadness wrote:
My experience with people who don't play ADC trying to play Tristana is that they miss a bunch of CS because of E passive and at the end of the game I've done more damage as support. I don't know what these specialised ADC mechanics are that you need with Caitlyn. You out range them. You auto them when they try to CS. It's not complicated.


imo abusing range is a lot more difficult than using skills, and if you don't abuse your range Cait is p bad.


People who don't play ADC do know how to abuse range

see:
Midlane auto attack trades

Ranged top lane auto attack trades


midlane is a lot more forcing the other guy to choose between creeps and you, and setting up skillshots/punishing if something hits. Most of them have longer windups and similar range, so it's difficult to get into a position where you couldn't auto back.

ranged top shouldn't even count count as abusing range differential. Your distance from the other guys potential gap closer is what dictates the matchup. If renekton can spend a single E to get empowered W off on you, then you lose, otherwise harass away for example.
Porouscloud - NA LoL
Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
July 08 2014 05:05 GMT
#808
I think ADC should build SotD more often. It is really good.
https://twitter.com/SufficientStats
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17922 Posts
July 08 2014 05:10 GMT
#809
On July 08 2014 14:05 Sufficiency wrote:
I think ADC should build SotD more often. It is really good.

If youre like Draven or Vayne its really good.
Otherwise its pretty meh
Artillery spawned from the forges of Hell
OhTwoMise
Profile Joined September 2012
United States164 Posts
July 08 2014 05:18 GMT
#810
Caitlyn isn't hard to play in the sense that you'll lose lane and feed. Caitlyn is hard to play in the sense that even if all of the usual metrics look reasonably good (most notably CS and deaths), there's still a good chance she's not accomplishing anything.

This doesn't mean you necessarily have to be way ahead or snowballing, but it definitely changes how and when you can fight and how much and when you MUST farm. It's pretty easy to see in pro play. Even ahead-Caitlyn tends to push rather than fight in the midgame. Although I confess I don't fully know what the new itemization has done for or against her.
Disengaged
Profile Joined July 2010
United States6994 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-08 06:16:21
July 08 2014 06:15 GMT
#811
I remember one time I went even in lane as Caitlyn in a 2v1 because my support was DC'd for about 10 minutes. Granted, they weren't very good and the jungler only came down like 2 times and failed while my jungler never even bothered with my lane lol
Goumindong
Profile Joined February 2013
United States3529 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-08 06:56:05
July 08 2014 06:54 GMT
#812
On July 08 2014 14:10 arb wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 08 2014 14:05 Sufficiency wrote:
I think ADC should build SotD more often. It is really good.

If youre like Draven or Vayne its really good.
Otherwise its pretty meh


It should be good on Ashe too. 4 crits in a row, guaranteed. But really you have to be able to abuse the timing on the active to make it worthwhile, and for early attack speed items the other ones do better.
ZERG_RUSSIAN
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
10417 Posts
July 08 2014 08:12 GMT
#813
I love Cait simply because you can straight out push people with no counterplay. She's my favorite champ to farm minions with lol
I'm on GOLD CHAIN
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
July 08 2014 08:19 GMT
#814
I can stop Cait shoving with Lulu's Q (provided that my AD isn't some chump who picked Ezreal or Vayne after he saw the Cait and only attacks to last hit... ), but I can't harass her because she won't let me in E range. Screw her. :<

Lucian players abusing how stronger he was than the rest were easy to abuse themselves. That was fun. "What's that, you're half HP and I hit 2 first with E and Q both off cd?"
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
Goumindong
Profile Joined February 2013
United States3529 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-08 10:52:41
July 08 2014 10:49 GMT
#815
On July 08 2014 08:24 Alaric wrote:
The "blind" is mostly for jukes and stuff, in a direct confrontation it actually gives vision slightly larger than the standard range (~= 575) so you can most of the time know who's hitting you and retaliate if you're ranged


Graves w works just like a bush or a wall combined with nocturne ult does. The reason people in the smoke can see who is hitting them is because you're granted vision of people who attack you just like anyone gains personal vision of someone attacking them. If you don't attack the person in the smoke they will be unable to retaliate ( except by guessing where to put skill shots)

Edit I would not be surprised if the reason they gave graves the special noc taunt is because they lifted the code from him and it was an internal joke about the dev process for the champion.
Zdrastochye
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Ivory Coast6262 Posts
July 08 2014 10:57 GMT
#816
Yeah Cait is just a lane bully. She's not extraordinary out of lane, although I do enjoy sieging with a Caitlin as well due to traps and her net trap making her quite hard to stick onto. If she's not fed from lane like she should be though she's not quite as strong as most adcs.
Hey! How you doin'?
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
July 08 2014 11:16 GMT
#817
Uh, yeah, my bad, I got my stuff mixed while typing. Graves' W reduces vision to 675 range, it doesn't grant 575 vision upon being attacked. Not that this is still enough to see Graves if he's in autoattack range of you anyway, which makes the ability awkward to use at low range for personal gain unless there's a bush nearby (the gank detection denying capability will always work).

I've found it one of the hardest abilities in the game to use properly, because I have trouble picturing myself the enemies inside's field of vision, let alone anticipate what it'll look like depending on where I cast it. Since it relies on removing information from the enemy (or a light slow when running away) which is intangible, it's not that easy.
Getting a kill with it is pretty ridiculous on the other hand.
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
JimmiC
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada22817 Posts
July 08 2014 14:23 GMT
#818
--- Nuked ---
wei2coolman
Profile Joined November 2010
United States60033 Posts
July 08 2014 14:44 GMT
#819
On July 08 2014 23:23 JimmiC wrote:
I'm pretty sure riot makes drastic nerfs in the PBE so people can freak out and then they can make their real change and people are like, that's not bad. Where if they made that first people would freak about it. I'm sure this won't go through, just like all the other bonkers nerfs that never went through.

It's the fact that they even considered it is hilarious. They have goldfish-tier memory, it's like they forgot what happened to every single fucking champion that got a ranged nerf.
liftlift > tsm
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
July 08 2014 14:47 GMT
#820
Last one was Ziggs. Only reduced the amount of solo kills he got in early laning, so they thought it'd be fine.
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
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