[Champion] Caitlyn

On August 04 2011 18:46 caldo149 wrote:

I have done Cait jungle before actually, u might have been in my game >.> You have to abuse her passive, headshot, for extra dps in the jungle. She doesn't really carry as hard without farm so you end up being more of a support for your team with extra dps and map control with your traps. You can set traps in the bushs near their buffs so you can see when the other jungler is there, or set traps along common travel routes for any champs so someone will probably hit it.
Summoner Spells: smite and flash/ghost/teleport

Masteries: 21/0/9, make sure u get all the atk damage related masteries in offense and improved smite. Utility is for the exp and buff duration masteries.

Runes: Atk speed red, armor yellow, attackspeed blue, 2 armor pen quints, 1 atkspeed quint. I think you could do with more armor pen but I'm not sure exactly. this seems to work for me.

Items:start cloth armor+5pots
core: wriggles+beserker greaves
then get whatever u want, usually normal AD carry items like Infinity Edge, Phantom Dancer, Last Whisper but u might want to skip Bloodthirster because you already have Wriggles (replace wriggles later if you don't know what else to build) Maybe get Bloodrazor for fast baron... depends on the game.

Route: blue-wolves-wraiths-double golems, b, red, gank. I havent done it in a while so u might be able to do red and then doubles without going b, but its safer to heal if u need to. If you start at blue you can kite the wolves a little toward the bush by blue to get your passive to proc sooner when you do blue.
-edit- actually if you want to start at blue you might have to take health quints and full armor pen reds instead because blue will mess u up without a good leash.

Better Route: double golems-wraiths-wolves gank and then improvise from there, usually do that round again until you get madreds or wriggles, then u can get the buffs faster.

Make sure you shoot when your sitting in the bush for your passive and spam your skills for more dps. You can kinda kite the wolves into the bush and kill them one by one but it might be faster just sit there and shoot em. It's hard to use the bush by the wraith camp but it can be done.


Skill order is Q-E-Q-W or Q-E-W if you do the alternate route ( you need all 3 skills to gank at all) After that it's R>Q>W>E

Double golems and the buff camps are the best since there is an easy to use bush for proccing your passive more.

Ganks: Ganks are frikin impossible, usually u can only gank vs super overextended lanes, and mid is the hardest to gank. Laying traps beforehand is usually a good idea just in case the enemies try to flee into the river or something. Your lane has to be aggressive and fight so both sides are a bit low, and then you have to provide surprise dps to win the fight (that can be done with any jungler though).
When you reveal yourself you can try to lead with Q for that extra burst so they aren't at a safe HP anymore, or try for a W but it's not easy to land. You can also just autoatk them if you have red buff or if they are already low. The nice thing is that you don't have as much of a gap to close as melee junglers so you can just go pew pew without having to get too far out of position if it's not safe, and you can just do free damage to pressure the lane, maybe force a b.
You can also start by setting a trap along a possible route that they will walk or flash to when they retreat to their tower and then your teammate can engage and force them into it. It's a good tactic especially in the sidelane bushes. If you can get positioned between the enemy and their tower you can cut off their escape with your traps and net without shooting yourself off too far to the side but its a bit risky to use your net for the slow. You really need your teammates to follow up because otherwise the enemies can just turn on you and kill you.
Her ult is really good for ganks because it forces the enemy to retreat even earlier than normal, almost always forcing a flash, and even then u can sometimes still target them and finish them off. You can try ward-teleport ganks too if that's what it takes.

Cait can control the map pretty well with her traps so dont forget to put one or two in key spots before you gank so you have a retreat route too in case you fail. Make sure you cover lanes whenever there's an opportunity because Cait is actually good in lane and you can get more exp and farm that way.

Another tip is that you can actually lure dragon out far enough so that Cait can shoot it from the little bush in the river but you'll probably have to tank it if you want to do that cuz no one else knows that and so they won't pull it far enough.

Jungle Caitlyn is pretty fun because you get to feel like a sniper who sneakily hunts people down. ^^;