How to play off-meta Caitlyn support like T1 Keria in League of Legends season 13
League of Legends' support role has been an experimental area for various innovators in professional play, particularly in the LCK. Players like Ryu "Keria" Min-seok, Cho "BeryL" Geon-hee, and Son "Lehends" Si-woo have a long history of trying out off-meta champions, both on competitive stages and in solo queues.
The current bot lane meta has been heavily criticized for being far too stagnant, with Zeri/Yuumi and Heimerdinger/Ashe appearing as the obvious lane picks.
Professional League of Legends players all over the world have been experimenting with every tactic that they can think of to counter first-pick viable bot lane combos. To fight Heimerdinger, BeryL has already built the Jhin support, a tried-and-true choice. Interestingly, things didn't stop there.
Keria recently chose Caitlyn support in an official League of Legends LCK match and emerged victorious with the champion in an effort to completely eliminate Zeri from the game. Despite the fact that she's a niche choice with a specific application in mind, Caitlyn is a perfectly playable support option if players understand how to play and build her effectively.
Paired with an ADC, Caitlyn can be a solid lane bully, which makes playing her as a League of Legends support quite effective in the current meta. She has a lot more utility than most ADC champions, thanks to her wide auto attack range, long-range pokes with her Q (Piltover Peacemaker), and the CC from both her traps and her E (90 Caliber Net).
In that regard, the Sheriff of Piltover is quite similar to Ashe. Fortunately, Caitlyn compensates for a lack of slows, vision control, and a global stun with some extremely high burst damage and decent lockdown.
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