Vayne Build Guide by jhoijhoi

Gotcha! :) This really isn't a spoiler. I'm just drawing your attention to it. Throughout this guide there will be spoilers like this. They will be hiding mathamancy and possibly a lot of boring stuff you don't want to read. BUT! If you're curious, just open them, like you've opened this one. Hopefully the spoilers will make reading the small stuff easier, and if you want more knowledge, you can come back and check out all the spoilers :) Have fun! <3

The above sequence is if you are aiming for the extreme utility Tumble gives you. Maxing Silver Bolts second means this sequence benefits greatly from a lot of attack speed. The above sequence comes from the mentality that a fully upgraded Silver Bolts is not entirely useful until late game when enemies have a lot of health to shred. In a normal game, I skill Tumble first, after nothing goes wrong for our jungler (otherwise I grab Condemn to launch invaders away), then Silver Bolts or Condemn, depending on whether my lane is uber aggressive.

• Use Tumble often. It uses little mana, and with our mana regeneration runes and masteries, you always have enough mana to spam this beast of a move.
• The uses of Tumble are numerous - one thing to mention though, is that Tumble DOES NOT got through any sort of wall at all. If you Tumble into something, Vayne with end up in an unpredictable location near where you Tumbled, so be careful that when fleeing/chasing you don't run into any walls.
• You CAN Tumble through Veigar's stun wall Event Horizon, and be stunned outside the wall, you CAN Tumble through Jarvan IV's ult, Cataclysm.

• Never give up in a team fight. The point of Silver Bolts is that it rewards Vayne for continuing a fight. Keep auto-attacking, listen for that audible TWANG and watch in satisfaction as their health is ripped away.
• Silver Bolts makes it very easy to push a lane. Don't auto-attack creeps, just last hit. However, if you are pushing, three hits should take out the ranged minions easily.

Q: Should I Max Silver Bolts first?
// The short answer to this question, is "No". The long answer is "Yes... if you can pull off the 3rd shot". The idea behind starting with Tumble first is that you have a low mana cost escape or harrass too. Starting with Silver Bolts is not a great idea due to the fact you won't be auto-attacking at that level.

Silver Bolts is also based off the enemies' health. You have to think of it in a relative sort of way. If they have 100 health, that 4% isn't really going to do anything - ie, you deal 4 extra damage ONLY if you get that 3rd hit. That is what you need to realise. You only do that extra percentage damage, and that base addition when you strike that 3rd hit to proc Silver Bolts. Otherwise, you're just making pretty rings around the object you're attacking.

Auto-attack means auto-atacking creeps to push the lane. You don't want to be pushing the lane, because that leaves you susceptable to ganks. In a realistic situation, you will not get that Silver Bolts proc on a laning enemy unless they are ******ed - as you may know, Silver Bolts is only applied to the target for a certain amount of time before it disappears. If you hit them twice, and they pop into brush, unless you're suicidal and follow them, you're not going to get that third hit. As such, it's best to max Silver Bolts second or last... Or first, IF, you can land that 3rd shot.

• Use Condemn to push chasing enemies away from you.
• Try to Condemn enemies into walls. This stuns them.
• Condemn has a large cooldown, despite our cooldown reduction runes and masteries, so don't just spam this ability for the lulz. Use it to save/protect allies/yourself, or to create chaos in a teamfight.

Now, in the below video, I get a kill, and am left on too little health for my liking. I immediately respond to instinct, and Condemn Poppy away from me, so I will be safe. I could have easily cut the part out where I fail with my Condemn, but I leave it in to show that it is a tricky skill to land. Notice that in the space of less than one second, Poppy moves slightly to the left, and I don't move to the left to compensate for this. This error leads to me Condemning Poppy away from myself, instead of into the wall. I could have chosen to chase her, but she still had Flash up, so I assumed she would jump over Dragon wall. Long story short: I fail with a Condemn, I don't chase, and I lose a possible kill. If I get any more negative feedback based upon this video, I'll just simply take it out :)



In this video, Leona and I are split pushing. However, once our allies die mid, the enemy team comes after us. I turn around to Condemn Nasus, but Leona takes this to mean "Let's fight!", and runs in. The most important part of being an AD Ranged carry is knowing when to fight, or to back off. I see that Leona is pretty much screwed now, and so continue running away.

Q: JhoiJhoi, you make me sad, why no max Condemn first?
// I have suggested Tumble > Condemn for NEWER VAYNE PLAYERS. If you feel up to it, level up Condemn first. I know I would rather play a champion safely at first, then when I get the hang of them, I'll be aggressive. As such, chillax with Tumble or go all TRY HARD RAGE ANGRY GORAN with Condemn. It is up to you, do not downvote just because of skill order =.=

Additionally, it is unreliable to max an ability based upon an extra component of it. While yes, there are walls to stun someone with Condemn, it is a ridiculously ******ed ability sometimes. If you're at the tiniest wrong angle, and Condemn, the enemy can just SLIDE against the wall, not being stunned, not taking that extra damage. Elsewise, you're using Condemn to keep enemies off your back, or away from allies, which means not positioning yourself in the best way to stun, but reacting quickly to make sure your ally/yourself doesn't die.

Teamfights generally occur in large open areas, where Condemn is more likely to be a bad spell to use, especially if you're surrounded by brush, like around Dragon. Condemn an enemy champion into brush, and your whole team will rage.

You can't anticipate how often someone's going to harass you. Vayne isn't exceptionally hard to zone with her relatively weak health pool. Therefore, you might need to push them off yourself or your partner (assuming you're laning with one) pretty often. Lower cooldown on Condemn is nice, but you should never have to use it multiple times in quick succession in the laning phase - it isn't a spell I use every 20ish seconds of lane play, whereas Tumble is. Using Condemn as a damage spell is a waste of mana, and I conserve the move for emergencies or ganks. Which is also the reason why I don't max it out. Not using it often means it is always on cooldown. If I was maxing it out first, lowering its cooldown, then I would probably spam it more. As it is, Tumble > Silver Bolts / Condemn has been working fine. Vayne isn't supposed to be an AD Caster like Urgot or Ezreal. She's a primarily auto-attack ranged hero, with a disable and three damage boosts. If the whole enemy team is chasing you, condemning the right one (the one who is often closest), will allow you to escape fine.

tl;dr - if you think you're good enough to land those GOOD condemns, go ahead, max Condemn. Just understand, that every Condemn you fudge up, that's an upgraded Tumble/ Silver Bolts you wouldn't have missed/got wrong.

• Use this to chase. Use this to escape. Use this whenever it is up. Due to cooldown reduction masteries and runes, Final Hour has a quick cooldown, and it is acceptable to use it when obtaining buffs, or going for an early Dragon.
• Pop this when taking down towers. You'd be amazed at your damage.
• When fleeing, make sure to activate Final Hour before Tumble'ing for the invisibility.

Sometimes it is better to simply auto-attack instead of Tumble'ing, but as I activate Final Hour here to finish Dragon faster, I may as well use all the abilities available to me to annihilate that beast.



In the below video, a lot of things happen.



In my Ashe guide someone asked, "Why prioritize Elixir of Fortitude over Elixir of Agility?"

My answer? You never know when that ~250 health could save your life.

My guide has plenty of videos of my own gameplay. My failures, my successes, my lucky escapes and my generic gameplay. In addition to these videos, I decided to write this chapter. If you're not in the mood for watching gameplay videos and reading my commentary, skip this chapter ^^ The reason behind this chapter is that a lot of tips and tricks can be learnt visually and I hope to explain what is happening in each video well enough so you are left informed and enlightened to how much damage/how lucky someone can be when playing a ranged AD carry like Vayne.



In this video we see Doublelift as Vayne and his team in the enemy jungle around Red Buff, giving Red Buff to the AD Carry, Vayne. The enemy jungler, Trundle comes to check/secure the buff. He is slowed by Galio and Vayne's auto-attacks with Red Buff, and injured. As Trundle escapes, enemy Tryndamere is revealed on low health and Vayne auto-attacks him once to get his first kill.

We see enemy Janna flash over the wall to give Trundle a shield hoping to save his life. But Trundle dies to the tick of Red Buff, giving Vayne his second kill.

Enemy Kennen then tries to harrass from the side, but gets trapped in friendly Veigar's Event Horizon, leaving him open to attack for the entire team. Vayne lands the last hit on Kennen, giving him his third kill.

Vayne then goes off screen to chase down Corki in a very close battle where Vayne just manages to come out on top due to life steal and a proc of Silver Bolts, securing the Quadrakill.

Vayne's team then chases after enemy Janna and incapacitate her with abilities such as Exhaust and do not auto-attack in order to give Vayne his fifth kill for the Penta.

This video is a little more hectic with Vayne actually doing the most damage for her team as opposed to just being in the right place at the right time. Janna initiates with Shurelya's Reverie as Dr. Mundo throws an Infected Cleaver and Vayne Tumble's in to attack the slowed enemy Shyvana. The enemy team decides to continue this fight as Nunu also uses Shurelya's active to get his team there faster.

We see Vayne Cleanse or Quicksilver Sash out of Shyvana's damage. With help from her teammates, Vayne finishes off Shyvana, takes damage from Graves' ultimate and a pounding from Lee Sin before destroying the blind monk and then Nunu in quick succession.

Graves flees, using Cleanse or Quicksilver Sash to get away. Vayne Tumbles and Flashes to get close enough to finish him in one autoattack. And then two-shot's Orianna for the penta-kill.