vayne's silver bolts must be super expensive

IllllllIIIIlllll·Oct 1, 2015·65 votes·2,632 views

I mean, not only are they silver, but they also penetrate through 15 layers of armor and have implanted computers to discover how much health the target have and scale 8% of it accordingly.

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Blade of JusticOct 1, 201529 votes

http://www.talesofvaloran.com/comics/2012-12-27-talesofvaloran026.png

iamdestinosOct 2, 20153 votes

breaks into new better lab shoots up everything vik got no money worries

IcyPepperOct 2, 20151 votes

She either leaves all the silver bolts around because she gets caught (Pretty sure Vik would have defenses or at least cameras), or Viktor is obviously smart enough to keep the new lab insured for that very reason.

BakedLotionOct 2, 20155 votes

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http://www.talesofvaloran.com/comics/2012-12-27-talesofvaloran026.png

is that a comic for ants

Vincent LuciusOct 2, 20154 votes

Click on it and go to the image link. You can read it full sized like that.

PrimaquariusOct 1, 201517 votes

It costs $100,000 to fire this weapon for 12 seconds

RogueWillOct 2, 20153 votes

She is a batman wannabe so I think she has it covered

Only Play DariusOct 2, 20151 votes

I miss Call of Duty 4. Many cherished childhood memories.

MrWasjigOct 2, 20151 votes

It costs $400,000 to fire this weapon for 12 seconds

Fixed that for you :D

NewFoundAbilityOct 2, 20151 votes

Heavy shoots bullets.

Vayne shoots Silver bullets.

MrWasjigOct 2, 20152 votes

Vayne shoots Silver bolts

Unless Riot buffs her to fire bullets that is. Given the balance team as of recently I really wouldn't put this past them :P

NewFoundAbilityOct 2, 20151 votes

You got me. My mistake.

I meant to say Silver Bolts, not Bullets. If anything, from her character I don't see her shooting Bullets because I feel shooting Bolts seems more 'personal'. But that's just me.

Captain AishiOct 2, 20157 votes

it's important to not confuse silver bullets and silver bolts, because they are two very different things, as illustrated below:

http://statici.behindthevoiceactors.com/behindthevoiceactors/_img/chars/char_79.jpg Silver Bolts

http://kellys-expat-shopping.nl/files/2015/02/Coors-Light.jpg Silver Bullets

ZorsusOct 2, 20151 votes

You got me...

Colgate GatorOct 2, 20151 votes

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It costs $100,000 to fire this weapon for 12 seconds

Sasha!

MarthianOct 2, 20156 votes

What makes you think Silver holds the same value in Valoran as it does in real life? For all we know, Silver is as common as water in the setting. Not to mention if Alchemy and it's making things into other things is a thing, the value of rare metals basically plummets. Also magic is basically computers on crack, so probably magical bolts.

"Oh, you have silver? BOOP, now I have silver too." - Magician/Alchemist/Shenanigans/Rich people with magical alchemists "I can't survive in this economy." - Struggling Silver Seller

RogueWillOct 2, 20154 votes

I think either A. Silver is less or same as common as it is to us or B. It is hard almost impossible to create Silver out of alchemy (probably needing a rare item like a philosophical stone or something) why? Because Vayne is the only one that use silver bolts. Most of the other Arrow based marksman use other ways to fortify the power of their bolts that wouldn't be necessary if silver were common or easy to obtain. Twitch, soak them on poison, ashe uses magical/true ice arrows, varsus uses cursed arrows, Ez bolts are magic/energy bolts. The only other champion that uses standard military issued bolts is Quinn.... maybe thats why she is such an unbalanced marksman xD

MarthianOct 2, 20151 votes

B isn't hard to solve in a fantasy setting. Heck, it might not even need the insanity of a gabillion human sacrifices.

Still, not enough canonical info on any of it. Just only have the fact Silver may not be as rare in Valoran as it is real life.

RogueWillOct 2, 20153 votes

I think that was FMA reference xD

I really think silver is hard to come by but is mostly because I'm aspiring designer myself and one of the basic concepts is to base things on your imaginary world from the real world so unless something is explicitly stated differently assume is the same as the real world.

I guess I could go look deeper into it by checking Orianna, Blitzcrank, urgot and maybe Viktor lore and Jugdments to check what materials they are made from and see what kind of material are common on Runterra since Gold should be a good conductor and hence used on them (unless is quite rare) but then again they are Techmaturgical which already imply they are magic based so it might be a dead end.

ShivarusOct 2, 20154 votes

Although, I'd imagine it'd cost you... an arm and a leg! . . . . . and a mother

Vincent LuciusOct 2, 20151 votes

And the body of a sibling, don't forget that.

OmiwomOct 2, 20152 votes

{quoted}

What makes you think Silver holds the same value in Valoran as it does in real life? For all we know, Silver is as common as water in the setting. Not to mention if Alchemy and it's making things into other things is a thing, the value of rare metals basically plummets. Also magic is basically computers on crack, so probably magical bolts.

"Oh, you have silver? BOOP, now I have silver too." - Magician/Alchemist/Shenanigans/Rich people with magical alchemists "I can't survive in this economy." - Struggling Silver Seller

''Vayne tips her bolts with rare metals, toxic to evil things''

IMMENSE COURAGEOct 2, 20154 votes

vayne is a batman clone so she has enough money not to care about ephemeral things like 'expenses'

MohawkBirdOct 1, 20152 votes

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MarthianOct 2, 20153 votes

meme thread that ended up in misc.

WolfBVOct 2, 20152 votes

Game wise, nothing makes sense. Lore wise, she uses the silver bolts for those she deems evil. So if she really believed Viktor to be evil, she'd either kill him or he'd kill her/capture and experiment on her. I think Vayne is ruthless because from the lore I've read she killed one who she believed to be a witch without remorse and left before anyone could catch her.

Gunslinger744Oct 2, 20152 votes

They're actually really really gold-efficient. 8% max health true damage every third attack for free?

warpenguin555Oct 1, 20151 votes

really, they seem pretty cheap to me XD

BudupopsOct 2, 20151 votes

meanwhile Heimerdinger extremely rich

For CarthageOct 2, 20151 votes

They also home on targets.

RavenstikerOct 3, 20151 votes

Forgot to say that it's super effective on warwick

Samflash3Oct 3, 20151 votes

Embertime, it's Tales of Valoran time!!!

Old Man TeetoOct 3, 20151 votes

Kog'maw's puke is magical.

Big Bang BobOct 3, 20151 votes

Well if you want to get scientific about it:

Silver is toxic to evil things (aka everyone). When you're poisoned, whether or not said poison kills you depends on your body mass compared to how much poison is ingested.

So health is your body mass.

As for penetrating armor, obviously the bolts work on "non-living" people Blitzcrank , so the only explanation is that all clothing is evil (which would explain a lot for some people).