Ezreal vs Caitlyn Counter Pick

18,822 games on patch 16.13.1 make this one of the most heavily recorded bottom lane pairings in the game, and the result is nearly neutral: 49.9% for Ezreal, a coinflip sitting inside the noise of any sample.

Caitlyn’s 650 attack range is a hundred units past his 550, and that gap defines the first ten minutes. She trades at distances where he has to step forward, and Headshot converts every few attacks — or any target caught by Yordle Snap Trap or 90 Caliber Net — into bonus damage scaling with critical strike chance. Contesting that with basic attacks is hopeless, so his early exchanges run through Mystic Shot, which refunds cooldown on hit and keeps Rising Spell Force stacked.

Mobility levels the middle game. Arcane Shift blinks out of trap placements and away from the Ace in the Hole channel, while 90 Caliber Net knocks Caitlyn backwards instead of closing distance, so she cannot follow the blink. Both are comparably fragile at 600 base health against 580 and 24 base armor against 27, though his mixed damage means a pure armor purchase never fully protects her. She also carries 62 attack damage against his 60, which compounds the range edge while both are still last-hitting. With difficulty ratings of 7 and 6, positioning around traps decides more games than execution does. Full stats: Caitlyn.