Vayne's identity vs kit doesn't make sens

http://ddragon.leagueoflegends.com/cdn/img/champion/splash/Vayne_0.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VJCZhaG_tU

I know that vayne is a delicate topic on board because we have people hating vayne and people with the "ADC in 2017 lul" "adc are the healthiest classe" But let's try for a few minutes to use reasoning. I started to get interest in playing vayne and in the champion but i quickly realised with all those games played that there was a problem, a very visible problem if you play vayne. Silver bolts at this moment doesn't acheive anything. The 3rd hit of vayne will deal bonus true damage based on the enemy HP, and here so much problems arrive.

To begin with the topic, what is vayne's identity? And to answer to this question people have no way to find out the answer but to play vayne themselves. it isn't the ability to kill tanks We have so much hypercarries that can kill tanks as fast as she can, it doesn't matter how with true damage, with what steroid ect... they will still kill tanks. Vayne is not a special snowflake in this matter. No, What vayne has that the others hypercarries don't is her ability to stick to a target, to chase a target kind of like a skirmisher. She's the best at chasing a target because of her passive+low cooldown Q, (example at 1:37 and 2:00) and even kalista can't do this unless the target is at a low range. What vayne also bring is a strong duelist ability, she's a direct counter to duelists like because of her low cooldown tumble, her insane single-target damage and stealth

So what was the original point? silver bolts does nothing to improve this identity. One can think that it allows her to kill tanks, but it's false because vayne can already destroy tanks without her W. Her Q+R bonus AD, her 4% attack speed/lvl all of that combined with 250% crit that interacts with Q is enough to kill tanks, and if you don't believe me you can watch the video above. Unless you're against you won't need your true damage, champion.gg says that vayne does 89% of her damage as physical damage, the 11% remaining is true damage which means that if you have 2500 hp, she's going to deal on average 275 damage, this can be explained by the fact that her physical damage is too high and the true damage needs 3 hits to be triggered, while also taking in account the fact that vayne maxes her W second which means that she's going to deal 12% of your hp at level 13 and games are relatively quick paces right now so a lot of fights happen before level 13. Then you can think that it allows her to duel because she can deal %max hp true damage, but it is also untrue because this %max hp true damage is inferior to anything else in her kit that allows her to duel, and once again this is due to silver bolts needing 3 hits to be triggered. In an one vs one you will at best proc your W 2 times before the target dies, and i say at best because it is really rare. And if it happens it means that it was in early game or in mid game where the target has a very low HP and silver bolts is level 1 and thus the damage won't change anything. Isn't it weird that this spell is better in early/mid game than in late game?

Silver bolts used to be extremely important for vayne. It used to deal a base amount of damage combined with a % of max hp, this made vayne maxing W and rushed a lot of attack speed items while melting everything with a lot of proc of silver bolts. Eventually riot removed the flat amount of damage since then vayne mains maxed Q because if you maxed W first you would do no damage due to the little amount of HP

"but rubick, does this mean you want her flat amount of true damage back?" No, silver bolts is over. The game has evolved Vayne isn't about true damage anymore, she has evolved to CRIT build she does not need true damage . This spell has become irrelevant and can actually be replaced by something vayne needs: utility

And in this vayne thread comes an other discussion: a marksmen bringing only damage is NO BUENO. What are the marksmen played in lcs? period (and few times in the adc role because she is not that feast or famin) if they don't have utility they will become feast or famin and riot said multiple time that they hate feast or famin And don't start about "if every marksmen get utility they will be similar" this is a straight up lie because utility is different from champion to champion leading to niche, instead of "lol i bring only damage, same for the other good luck for choosing the right pick oh wait you will only choose the strongest"

SOOO what vayne needs? a spell that: -bring UNRELIABLE utility, a hypercarry should not have reliable utility or will end up a better pick than anyone else like who's about to get nerfed according to meddler. Unreliable= has a delay/hard to apply ect... but also telegraphed like sentinels -emphasis her identity------> duelist/single target damage/skirmisher -does not remove her weaknesses----------> lack of waveclear, lack of range

example of what it can be : Vayne's basic attacks and Condemn apply a Silver Bolts stack for 3 seconds (up to 3 times) Attacking a new enemy removes all stacks from the previous target. After The third stack, the silver will paralyze the target reducing its movement speed by 30/35/40/45/50% and attack speed by half of the amount for 0.5 second After the first effect, the other effects within 3 seconds on the same target will only last 0.25 second

finally and it's subjective, i suggest changing the name to "nickel bolts" since nickel is more toxic than silver