Lethality or Critical caitlyn?

[tender cloud]

for mid lane and adc

[night bison]

adc

only if its majority squishies. dont go it against a malphite

[maiden quail]

Lethality caitlyn is quite good honestly

her Q and R are overloaded with so much damage

[leaden river]

lethality also comes with 40% crit so

[forest pebble]

crit outscales Lethality and does similar damage even at 1 or 2 items, so there's little reason to build non-crit Lethality items on her. That said, Collector and LDR are great on her and the former in particular is good first buy alternative to IE (Caitlyn is one of the few ADCs were IE first is actually worthwhile thanks to how her headshots scale with crit damage as well as crit chance).

[winter talon]

Don’t go crit into armour stackers, that’s all

[slate cape]

But lethality is better?

[winter talon]

crit is better in a few scenarios but lethality is more consistent and pretty much same strength

only if they dont have any armour, nothing build against crit, its better, all other scenarios lehtality is better

[slate cape]

But if you are playing against armour stacks, won't lethality be double inefficient?

[winter talon]

crit wont do anything, lehtal will bypass some of the armour at least

its that crit is completely useless against it and lethality is just bad/average depending on the champ

[forest pebble]

crit does plenty, it increases the raw damage that's incoming by quite a bit (especially if IE is bought too)

There's no need to ignore pen entirely v. armor stackers since Collector and LDR exist.

[winter talon]

true true

[shadow zodiac]

crit is always better against armor stacking champ idk what he's saying but he skipped maths class for sure

[winter talon]

This is not a math thing this is personal experience

[forest pebble]

Which is ancedotal evidence that can be refuted by mathematics

You also don't have to choose between pen and crit for the first two items since Collector and LDR exist (you can even delay IE till 3rd if you really want, but imo, getting it 2nd or 1st is fine in most games).

[daring wind]

You are supposed to build crit into tankier people and lethality into squishier

'Personal experience' means nothing when the math is completely in opposition to what you are saying. Crit has much higher sustained damage and is made to deal with things like tanks while lethality is meant to burst and kill people with less armor - flat armor pen + burst vs % armor pen + consistent dmg