A not-so-boring rant about Vayne
Greetings to everyone, I am thel0newarri0r and this is probably my first post so I will try to be as less salty as I can be( Not implying that I'm salty in games. -cough- -cough- Maybe in some cough 😏 )
Alright, so before we get started, let us get some things off of our chests here.
- We all know every champion is broken to some extent and the extent of balance of a character cannot usually be defined.
- All the champions included have few general counters( Applying CC, not dragging the game into mid-late when they have a Nasus or Veigar etc etc)
So, that being out of the way, let's get to the topic at hand-Vayne.
We all know how Vayne fits into the champion pool. She is a tank-buster, has an escape or two( considering condemn to be one), a passive which grants true damage, a very fine ADC overall. And this is where the "oh so broken pls nerf" part begins. Agreed, she is a tank-buster, she utilizes her passive "Silver Bolts" so that the Garen that has been fed 13-0 and has all the health and armor items that he can buy actually have a counter. But, the thing we don't realize is her advantage against tanks applied in the case of squishies too.What I mean by this is, if you can six-seven shot a tank, it is general sense that you can kill squishies 3 or 4 times faster than that.
Secondly, her percent health true damage. I don't really sense any "brokenness" in this one skill alone, but this combined with the other skills( which I am going to address shortly) makes it broken.
And now, onto the ultimate. Vayne becomes invisible while she dashes and gains bonus AD and also extends the duration if she gets a kill/assist. This, my friends, is what I feel is broken. Lets just suppose that a Vayne builds full CDR( I'm not implying that this is how you build on her, no one in their right mind would go full CDR on her but just for the case..), her dash CD is too short, meaning that you won't be seeing her throughout the entirety of the team fight( especially since control wards do not grant sight of invisible units). It's hard to pin her down with the dash being on such short cooldown and including invisibility, it is near impossible.
And regarding damage, let's us the break-down of her damage in team fights.( Again, not implying that every Vayne builds like this)
Statikk/RFC proc --"Okay cool" BotRK %health damage -"Eh, its fine I guess, Ill just build more armor" Duskblade of Draktharr proc -"....okay, that one-shot was humiliating" Extra damage from ultimate -"Hold on.." Tumble extra damage -"Things are getting outta hand here.." Silver bolts proc -"Ey what the heck mate, who fed her?!" Actual damage -"ffs..."
(Note: Some of these damages are inclusive of the other.)
My suggestion on how to balance this champion is to remove the invisibility on her ultimate and/or increase the cooldown of dash. So, overall, what I mean to say is, she does a lot of damage, but isn't that what all other ADCs do? All I am saying is, give us a REAL chance to actually hit her with something and give ample time of it ( My friend Peter Parker used to say "With great damage, comes great healing". I was like " Of course! How could I be that blind?").Just gut her invisibility and we will be fine here.
Thank you.