Vayne discussion, buff or nerf?

Kuroi86·10/31/2015, 7:10:44 AM·1 votes·430 views

So I'm looking at the marksman update and I wanted to pose a question.

With the changes, Vaynes base AD is getting hit pretty hard. It will be going from 50 – 106 to 55.88-85.76

On the other hand, Vaynes silver bolts will be going from 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 (+ 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8% of target's maximum health) to 6/7.5/9/10.5/12% (40/60/80/100/120 min cap)

To try and put this into context, lets take Anivia who starts with a base health of 468. Previously, silver bolt proc would deal around 38.72/53.40/68.80/82.76/97.44 with silver bolts at ranks 1-5 respectively. Now however the minimum damage would override the % health damage, that being 28.08/35.10/42.12/49.14/56.16. The % health damage actually won't outweigh the minimum damage until you have surpassed 667/800/889/952/1000 health with each rank.

In conclusion, while Vayne has lost a noticeable amount of AD, her true damage does deal slightly more per proc. So I pose the question.

Was the AD nerf worth the buff to silver bolts?

2 Comments

Irelia Bot10/31/2015, 7:17:35 AM1 votes

givne that she got buffed early game she is likely going to have an easier time snowballing.

Yes it does add up. and crit chance being everywhere makes it twice as bad.

And the fact that her ult just giver her damage no questions asked means that she will not have that bad of a time.

But having played on the PBE a bit I will say marksmen are clearly in a much stronger spot evne if their lage game base damage is nerfed.

They have the means to snowball easier early on which is all they really need to becoem a problem with all of the crit chance to be taken advantage of.

dawn syndrome11/2/2015, 3:05:26 AM1 votes

Vladimir