I have a question about Vayne.

Rindin14·10/4/2017, 3:06:45 AM·1 votes·157 views

Granted, she only has a 52ish% winrate at the moment and is certainly not the biggest problem in champion balancing, I feel like there is something wrong here.

As I understand it, each champion is balanced by being good at some things and bad at others, this ensures that no champion is the "best pick" and that there are interesting decisions to make when building your team.

With that in mind, what is Vayne bad at? Generally speaking, an adc is judged on a few basic categories. Damage (because duh) Range/poking potential Wave clear Mobility Dueling (1v1 and 2v2) and other things like CC and special abilities unique to the champion (things like twitch's stealth or corki's package)

Vayne chalks up medium to high rankings on all of these categories. Unless I am mistaken, her only problems are in wave clear (she doesn't have any form of AOE, but she certainly has enough damage to make this not much of a problem) and in poking (though her range is not so short as to be crippling like Jinx Sivir KogMaw or Graves

Her damage is incredible, her mobility is on the higher end of adc champions, second only to Kalista, and her dueling is insane. Add to that a strong (though situational) cc and the ability to stealth for a short time and I really don't see the logic here.

As far as her winrate is concerned, I'm not entirely convinced that isn't because of her habit of trying to win 1v5 fights by herself (at least, that's what I generally see Vayne players doing).

I'll admit, I am not an adc main, and it's possible I am missing something. What drawbacks/weaknesses are there that makes all of these strengths balance out? [zombie-brand-mindblown]

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