Caitlyn·Mid Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Caitlyn Mid build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick First Strike as your keystone, followed by Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight 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 The Collector 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 49.1% winrate over 694 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being First Strike as your keystone, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery 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 Hubris as your first item, then Boots of Swiftness as a second item and The Collector as a third item. You want to finish the build with Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards 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 49.0% win rate across 151 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Caitlyn Mid build in the current patch, try Flash and Barrier as your Summoner Spells, Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline and Cut Down 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 Infinity Edge as third item. The last 3 options are Rapid Firecannon, Lord Dominik's Regards and Bloodthirster. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 55.6% win rate over 144 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.