Caitlyn·Bot Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Caitlyn Bot build, you should take Flash and Ghost as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Fleet Footwork as your keystone, followed by Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline and Coup de Grace in the primary tree, as well as Absolute Focus and Gathering Storm in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Stormrazor as your first item, followed by Berserker's Greaves and Infinity Edge. For your last 3 items, you should build Rapid Firecannon, Lord Dominik's Regards and finish with Bloodthirster. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 53.1% winrate over 37 528 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Caitlyn Bot build would be to take Flash and Ghost as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Lethal Tempo as your keystone, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline and Coup de Grace in the primary tree, and Absolute Focus with Gathering Storm in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Stormrazor, which you should build first, followed by Berserker's Greaves as your second item and Infinity Edge as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Rapid Firecannon, Lord Dominik's Regards and Bloodthirster. The skill order for this build is Q - W - E. In the current patch, this build has a 51.8% win rate over 9 672 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Ghost as your Summoner Spells, with runes being First Strike as your keystone, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer and Cosmic Insight in the primary tree, and Absolute Focus with Gathering Storm in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Youmuu's Ghostblade as your first item, then Berserker's Greaves as a second item and The Collector as a third item. You want to finish the build with Lord Dominik's Regards, Infinity Edge and Rapid Firecannon. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 52.0% win rate across 7 937 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Caitlyn Bot build in the current patch, try Flash and Ghost as your Summoner Spells, Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection and Treasure Hunter as your primary rune tree, and Absolute Focus with Gathering Storm as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete The Collector as your first item, then finish Berserker's Greaves as your second item, and Lord Dominik's Regards as third item. The last 3 options are Infinity Edge, Rapid Firecannon and Bloodthirster. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 50.4% win rate over 3 176 matches played.

Situational Caitlyn Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Caitlyn build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.