League players discover “abusive” Caitlyn combo with Season 2024 items
Riot GamesA League of Legends streamer discovered a new Caitlyn build that many players have called broken as it uses the new items from the Season 2024 overhaul.
Riot Games introduced a lot of burst damage with its new item overhaul for Season 2024. The new items have continued to run rampant in casual and pro play as the developer has released multiple patches in January to help curtail some of the more powerful combinations.
However, the developer has not hit on one combo that has become all the rage with ADC players in the bottom lane. Thanks to the rise in lethality and critical strike item strength, Caitlyn has become a surprise benefactor of the burst meta.
With her empowered auto passive, and some items’ ability to create empowered attacks, the champion can now occasionally one-shot low-health enemies.
“Broken” Caitlyn League build
League of Legends streamer Allen Chen showcased the build on social media and claimed he climbed to Grand Master with Caitlyn. The build has players starting with Stormrazor and then building Titanic Hydra, an item not usually seen on the ADC.
The build continues with Infinity Edge, then Lord Dominik’s Regards, and ends with whatever other AD items players prefer. Apparently, the Titanic Hydra can be used to get two passive headshots, Caitlyn’s passive, in a row by using the item’s active to melt enemies.
Crucially, the headshot auto needs to be in the process of hitting an enemy, or flying toward them, for players to activate Titanic Hyrda to get the second shot.
The build was also posted to Reddit with a player saying that Riot should take it out of the game as soon as possible.
“Possibly borderline abusive but Riot has not disabled Cait nor said don’t do it,” the post said.
Riot has been good about cleaning up broken builds and weird interactions that have come from the item changes and updates, so who knows how long this build will remain in the game.
