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not a vayne hate thread

Ultraboomer·10/1/2015, 11:00:48 PM·4 votes·587 views

Allow me to begin by saying that I love Vayne, she is my go-to marksman and easily my favorite champion. I would also like to say I was not 100% on where this thread belongs but this seemed the most reasonable option.

I don't remember who said it, but I remember seeing someone post that Vayne's early game was way too strong, but her late game should remain strong as it is. So with this in mind I came up with a set of changes I feel would be fair and keep her power but move it towards the mid-late game.

Let's start with the source of most people's complaints, silver bolts. For people who don't know, Vayne's w modifies her basic attacks to apply one stack of silver bolts which when it reaches 3 stacks deals a percentage of max health as true damage and a small flat amount of true damage which goes up as you rank it up.

Her ultimate is also something people don't like very much because it increases her AD by a substantial amount, increases the speed gained from her passive, and allows her to stealth for 1 second each time she uses her tumble.

I feel that the source of most people's grief is her damage output in the early game so my solution is to give her silver bolts a time in between when it can proc and when it can apply stacks again, akin to Ekko's passive. I was thinking something like 1.3-1.5 seconds at rank 1 and decreasing by 0.20 seconds per rank. this would cause to have a 0.5-0.7 second cooldown per target and max rank. Did I mention the removal of the increasing damage per rank?

Instead of having the damage increase tied to the ranking up of her w, let's put it onto her ult as a passive. Without the ult having any points let's say that her silver bolts will apply the same % max hp damage it does at rank 1 currently, but no flat damage. I would put the increase then to 4% and 10 flat at rank 1, 7% and 20 flat at rank 2, and 10% and 30 flat at rank 3. Keep in mind the delay would still be there, which is why I made the new max higher than her current max rank damage.

tl;dr make her w have delay between procs reducing each time it ranks up. move damage increase off W rank and onto R rank. W should still do true damage because it's part of her character. read the rest for more details.

3 Comments

cFlame10/2/2015, 2:46:52 AM1 votes

The only problem I see is the cooldown of Silver Bolts going down by 0.2 seconds per rank. By level 10 that's - 2 seconds, which negates the cooldown entirely. Instead go for 0.06 seconds down per rank. By level 10 its goes down to 0.9 seconds, and by level 18 its a 0.42 second cooldown.