is sated vayne still a thing?

Rustling Bush·Sep 22, 2015·1 votes·341 views

i remember seeing this when sated came out, but then it just dropped off the face of the earth, wonder why, condemn seems like a pretty reasonable tool to keep her healthy.

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disregardableSep 22, 20151 votes

because even Olaf can counter jg her.

CrettSep 22, 20151 votes

Devourer was nerfed for ranged champions. Only deals on-hits twice every 4 autos

disregardableSep 22, 20152 votes

that nerf hasn't gone through yet, that will be next patch.

Chuck CharlesSep 22, 20151 votes

it never really was a thing, because any jungler konws to just invade you. doesn't matter who they are, as long as they aren't an adc themselves they will generally find you and force you out of your jungle or kill and keep repeating it over and over and you will not get sated in a reasonable amount of time.

The only viable way to really get sated as vayne is to actually bring smite on an adc in bot lane and occasionally farm up in the jungle when you can (asssuming your jungler lets you) and even then its not really a good idea. It will take a long long time to get sated and you delay your power by a lot which is huge. I have had games as devourer vayne where I've focused on getting jungle at every chance I can and unless I get super fed and snowball it takes 30 minutes to 35 minutes to get sated.

At that point, vayne is already a late game monster. sure, you make her a god and downright one of the scariest things I've ever seen in league of legends, but she is already good enough late to where you don't need to sacrifice the rest of the game just to be this monster late game.

AsphodelNextSep 23, 20151 votes

It's okay in lower elo's when people don't know how to shut it down early or finish the game before she gets rolling. Against more skilled players though, you run into the issues of counterjungling, not having as much map pressure or gank potential, and Vayne not getting the contested objectives(Dragon, Baron, even scuttle crab) that she needs to stack her Devourer. Sure, she's a late game monster who can 1v5, but she should never be able to get to that point.

It's sort of like how in theory, Feral Flare was infinite damage and let you become a hypercarry late game, but once they nerfed the initial damage, it became underpowered. It actually does matter where you're starting from and how you stack up to other players, you can't just compare your full build to someone else's.