Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
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.
The Aatrox Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aatrox sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Caitlyn. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Caitlyn helps Aatrox perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aatrox tries to synergize with Caitlyn, he gets a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Caitlyn doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Aatrox is played with Caitlyn on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Caitlyn.
Moreover, when Aatrox plays with Caitlyn on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Caitlyn does a poor job of protecting Aatrox during team fights.
There is no perfect companion for Aatrox that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, Caitlyn is a relatively poor companion for Aatrox. By playing on the same side as Aatrox, she decreases their win rate by -1.3% to 49.1%. This proves that there is a bad strategic relationship between Aatrox and Caitlyn that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Caitlyn has a greater difficulty than Aatrox. That means you must be careful when lining up Caitlyn teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, Aatrox players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Aatrox and Caitlyn together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a lot of magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Caitlyn teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aatrox to pair well with Caitlyn during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to include in your Aatrox and Caitlyn synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Stridebreaker. When Aatrox used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Caitlyn than with most other common builds. In fact, Aatrox boasted an average win rate of 49.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Caitlyn with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.1% winrate overall.
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