What does Vayne do to deserve % max health true damage?

Niyumi··7 votes·1,236 views

And why is that even a fucking thing? She already has no counterplay since you can't dodge AA spam, so why reward one of the easiest champions in the game with one of the most absurd types of damage?

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CerealBoxOfDoom7 votes

why is this a problem?

Also she has plenty of counterplay, technically since building armor isn't counterplay then no adc actually has counterplay by this logic.

Vayne has no long range abilities and is given consistent damage by effectively reducing the cost effectiveness of your defensive items by some percentage ranging from 20-30%. For stupid people and baddies it might be more like 40% because stupid and bad scale multiplicatively with true damage.

LordGeovanni1 votes

400 range is pretty long range to 125 range champions

CerealBoxOfDoom1 votes

not really

most gapclosers are around 450-650 and 400-500 is the average unit gain when chasing based off my own experience, like with garen, voli, or mundo, without a slow you tend to get about that close.

Anyways, compared to what is needed to effectively kite without your team nearby vayne's range is extremely low and it only gets worse if you check out her alternatives.

If anything the biggest issue with vayne is that killing her requires some commitment. Normally this sounds ok but League of Legends is at times a very fast paced game where things die really fast and commitment is difficult at times for a lot of champs especially ones that aren't expected to do everything on their own like tanks

Dynikus7 votes

vayne is one of the easiest champions in the game

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Tyrone Lannister4 votes

Theres not enough facepalms in the world for shit like this.......

Niyumi4 votes

So, remind me: How is right clicking hard?

Astôlfo2 votes

Yes please just right click and do nothing else and tell me how you do as one of the squishiest lowest-stat ADCs in the game who requires the highest mechanical positioning and kiting knowledge probably in the game.

LordGeovanni1 votes

that is by no means required that if you get in a postion where you need it then its great to know how to do it but most vayne that paly versus me stand in 1 place and by time i reach them with half my hp they hit ult tumble forward in a circle around me and rip the last bit of my hp even harder and this is the class that is supposed to need peel and some one to help them to do anything but crits nor % max hp true damage dont need no help they just have it anyway

Yaśuo Main1 votes

Apparently, this retarded comment states every champion that can right click, is an easy champion.

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AcidTheWarlock1 votes

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LordGeovanni1 votes

but not every champion only right clicks

Yaśuo Main1 votes

wait so what champ cant auto attack

jr deputy meow6 votes

maybe its the part where she gives up a whole ability slot for it or maybe its the part where she has no natural attack speed steroid, or the part where she has one of the weakest early games of any champion in league of legends, or the part where all of her damage is single target, or the part where she has no burst, no built in sustain, no poke...

maybe it's the part where it's literally what her kit is built around

it's not like it was just slapped the fuck on there

LordGeovanni2 votes

her attack speed is good and her ad steroid help it so no matter if its tanky or squishy she has flat damage and % damage to kill you with. that type of damage is not fun for half of the roster who have to get to her to do damage and cant get away cause she has speed agument and dashes

PermabannedGaren5 votes

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And why is that even a fucking thing? She already has no counterplay since you can't dodge AA spam, so why reward one of the easiest champions in the game with one of the most absurd types of damage?

Vayne is harder to play successfully than any of the champions you regularly play except Lee Sin. She's certainly much more skill-intensive than Blitzcrank or Jhin.

She gets a big boy steroid on her W because she has no ability that extends her threat radius beyond her AA range, making her the shortest-ranged ADC in practical terms. Her damage is also completely single target-oriented, meaning that to be an ADC that scales very strongly into late game (since with her kit making her good early to mid game is pretty much impossible) she has to have a very powerful single target steroid.

She's also been kind of bad most of the season, without really even being the best-scaling ADC. Twitch and Kog are at least comparable, without Vayne's weaknesses or limitations.

Niyumi2 votes

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Vayne is harder to play successfully than any of the champions you regularly play except Lee Sin. She's certainly much more skill-intensive than Blitzcrank or Jhin.

HA! HAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh, that was a good joke. So, tell me: In what world is right-clicking on someone "hard," by any means?

She's also been kind of bad most of the season, without really even being the best-scaling ADC. Twitch and Kog are at least comparable, without Vayne's weaknesses or limitations.

Literally nothing has changed about her since as long as I've been playing. They removed 3 AD off of her (oh wow, what a nerf), and then turned around and massively buffed her Q. Yet, she still instantly kills tanks because you can't build against her, she's hyper-mobile and can push E to remove any threat, and can't be caught unless you have a pink ward on you at all times. How is that weak or bad?

PermabannedGaren2 votes

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HA! HAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh, that was a good joke. So, tell me: In what world is right-clicking on someone "hard," by any means?

I gather that you're not very smart, but tell me, are you really so dull as to believe that Vayne just right clicks on an enemy champion and immediately wins the team fight? She just clicks without any care for her positioning or kiting until everyone dies?

Vayne is high skill cap because of how unforgiving she is. More than any ADC save Draven and I guess maybe Kalista she requires the most precise orb-walking, positioning, and kiting mechanics due to her very short range, effective threat radius, and her fragility. Her E is also much harder than any of Blitz or Jhin's fuck ass skill shots to properly land if they aren't basically stupid enough to let you hit it. A Vayne that can't Q to both dodge a Nidalee spear and bring her in the right spot to pin the enemy Maokai who is W'ing in to a wall is hardly a Vayne at all.

Literally nothing has changed about her since as long as I've been playing. They removed 3 AD off of her (oh wow, what a nerf), and then turned around and massively buffed her Q. Yet, she still instantly kills tanks because you can't build against her, she's hyper-mobile and can push E to remove any threat, and can't be caught unless you have a pink ward on you at all times. How is that weak or bad?

So like, are you trolling, or are you really this incredibly dense?

Are you really completely incapable of figuring out why Vayne might be weak despite not being touched directly?

Do you think it might be because the game changed around her to make her weak, through itemization changes and buffs to champions who counter her?

Like holy shit, do you really think the only factor in a champion's balance is in changes to their kit? I can't believe you'd be so foolish as to imply that. You should be fucking ashamed of yourself.

She's bad because she gets shit on in lane by every other ADC, including other hypercarries, and she doesn't reach a mid game power spike as significant as Twitch or Kog'maw. She 1v1s well once she gets Blade of the Ruined King, but when in fights with multiple enemies her single target damage, short range, and inability to itemize for defense early on means she gets blown up and killed. Compare to Twitch, who massively outranges her and has huge AOE damage, or Kog'maw, who has both of those things and also rushes an item with MR for his first item.

Want to counter-build Vayne? Build armour and HP. Most of her damage is physical. Buy items that slow her attack speed as well.

She can remove one threat with her E. That's what you people don't understand. Vayne is the duelist ADC, but she is one of if not the worst ADC for dealing with multiple champions gunning for her. By making her have to switch targets her DPS is decreased significantly, or at least it would be if she wasn't killed immediately once dove on. She also does very poorly against most mid lane mages who can CC and burst her from outside her threat radius.

Late game is Vayne hard to deal with? Yeah, but that's her only saving grace. She pays for her late game far more than Kog'maw or Twitch pay for their similarly strong late games.

Astôlfo1 votes

Eh, Jhin is (or rather, would be if he wasn't ridiculously forgivingly OP right now currently) a difficult champion as well, just in a different aspect than Vayne.

ZT Xperimentor1 votes

Draven

colesy4 votes

the bit where she sucks a giant dick for the first 30 minutes of the game is why she has percentage true damage

specter4243 votes

$$$$$

redfeenix1 votes

So what would you rather have Vayne's w do physical damage?

Niyumi3 votes

Change it to current health, so that she can't just delete people. Problem solved.

Yaśuo Main1 votes

an actual good idea!

Elros Thranduil1 votes

Wanted to write long thing but then changed my decision. Dude vayne is really weak at laning phase. Seriously weak. So she got her power by killing tanks like adc's.

Meep Man1 votes

Because her base attack damage STINKS BEYOND ALL BELIEF! She gets 1.66 attack damage per level while other common weak basic attack champions like Mages commonly get 3 attack damage per level. She gets only slightly over half the AD per level a Mage gets. Not to mention her range is pretty limited, not extending past the little 550 range circle of death around her.

oSEXYPLATYPUSo1 votes

i have beat vayne solo top as garen with this build item 3075 item 3143 item 3071 item 3047 item 3742 i was 9-2-11 she was 4-11-7 didnt seem too difficult to win vs her.

Reikken1 votes

"What does Vayne do to deserve % max health true damage?"

have literally no long range skills at all

name another marksman with nothing with over 550 range

hell, there are barely any champions at all with nothing over 550 range. Even melees tend to have 600-700 range gap closers. Actually, I'll list them. Darius, Renekton, Rammus, Udyr, Volibear. End list. and Renekton can sometimes double dash

Bhagswag2 votes

Shen. Master Yi. Lol plenty more.

Reikken1 votes

Master Yi has a 600 range blink, and with AoE damage that extends even farther Shen has a global teleport, plus a 600 range dash

VivaLaKitten1 votes

she has a weak early game and she's very squishy

LordGeovanni1 votes

I agree people only argument that people have that vayne can be how she is now is that she doesnt have poke have 25 less range than most other adc as if this game is only adc versus adc vayne rips through every other class of champion and is still pretty even with adc because though she has less range she also has more movement speed so she can stick on them faster than they can run and she his spamable invisibility spamable ad steriod and gets free also hard cc only 5 other adc has hard cc. if you dont have armor she has crits if you have armor she his % max hp damage you cant win the only thing you can do to win is delete her and riot take away most assassins deleting power versus adc to make them more effective against the champions that should counter them

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