Vayne is not a template upon which you should design new ADCs

THE RlVER KlNG·1/31/2018, 9:31:03 PM·233 votes·9,188 views

To start things off, let’s talk about a new champ we have in the works. Looking back at the last few marksmen released, we discovered something that’s been null from our roster for a long time: a super high-risk, high-reward marksman, in the vein of well… Vayne.

Please don't. Vayne's an archaic ball of stats champion with little to no interactivity. Her counterplay boils down to essentially 'CC lock her until she dies' which is the worst and most frustrating feeling in the world. She's safe, mobile, self-sufficient, and hits like a fucking truck. When she's bad she gets bullied into uselessness. When she's good she's the single most unfun and infuriating champ in the game to face.

Self-sufficient 'hunter' style ADCs have always been balancing nightmares - Lucian, Twitch, Quinn, Vayne, etc. Getting a Void ADC is nice (even though a support would have been better to complete the team comp), getting a Void ADC based off of Vayne's 'feast or famine past twenty minutes I win now' design is not. Vayne is terrible, terrible design that has been kept alive for years because Riot doesn't want to confront her large, loud, and entitled playerbase. Please do not design ADCs based off of her, her kit, her playstyle, or whatever her fantasy is supposed to be.

Besides, the entire marksmen class is low risk, maximum reward at all times anyway. I don't see how this new ADC is gonna break that rule with this god-awful meta we've had for the last two seasons.

337 Comments

Late For Tea1/31/2018, 9:43:04 PM92 votes

High risk high reward champions are always a nightmare to balance, because once you learn the champion well (e.g. one-tricks) the risk is significantly lower, and you're left with a broken champion that feels cheap and unfun to play against.

Mordepool1/31/2018, 9:38:08 PM63 votes

My 1st thought. High risk high reward based off Vayne. Where the risk then?

Ahristocats1/31/2018, 9:52:08 PM22 votes

How about people play vayne first to see if there is a risk or not?