Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Rumble deals almost entirely magic damage. Build some Magic Resistance to reduce his damage.
Watch Rumble's Heat bar carefully. If you see him Overheat, go in for the kill while his skills are disabled.
Rumble's ultimate can deal a lot of damage if you stay inside the area of effect. When you see the missiles falling, move out of the way as quickly as possible.
The stat comparisons shown here show some influential Caitlyn vs. Rumble matchup stats that may help us realize the differences between the two. As an example, Caitlyn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rumble’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Caitlyn may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Rumble..
Caitlyn typically has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Rumble. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Caitlyn usually fairs equally well when playing against Rumble, with a 50.7% win rate. As a result, Caitlyn makes an ok counter for Rumble.
While Caitlyn does have a higher win rate compared to Rumble, when facing one another, Caitlyn also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Caitlyn into Rumble.
Furthermore, Caitlyn also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rumble. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Caitlyn vs Rumble matchups, Caitlyn is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Caitlyn is a decent counter for Rumble. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Caitlyn against Rumble.
If you would like to truly master Caitlyn to counter Rumble during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Caitlyn usually racks up a similar amount of CS as Rumble. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Caitlyn versus Rumble build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Stormrazor. When Caitlyn combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs. Rumble than with most other typical builds. In fact, Caitlyn had an average winrate of 50.7% when playing against Rumble with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Rumble as Caitlyn, Caitlyn players should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Caitlyn vs Rumble counterpicks, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.7% winrate overall.
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