Hi fellow summoner and welcome to my Vayne guide. Named ingame after my main, I am called BPD Bruce Vayne. My current Rank is Platin 2, but with ambitions to diamond. After playing her every now and then in Season 4 (with a surprisingly bad outcome) I decided to main her in this season, since I consider her a really strong and decent pick. Right now, I am ranked #874 (world ranking) at LoLSkill with her. I currently got a win ratio of 58,5% consisting of 55 wins and 39 loss with a slightly better performance than the average on her. I want to examine in more detail what makes her strong, where her weaknesses are and what you have to care about while playing her. Anyways, if you have any advices / made other experiences with her at some points, don't hesitate to comment. But for now, lean back and enjoy.

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CON

Tanks? What’s that? Shredder your enemies with your Silver Bolts! The very best. No other ADC can outdamage you in late. So mobile. Wow. Just awesome to play with, really fast and fun gameplay. Very good clean-up / chase potential due to her passive Night Hunter and Final Hour. Strong in turtle due to Tumble and high damage output.

Weak in early. Hard to master. Depending somehow on team composition and support. Really vulnerable with CC. Condemn complicated to use sometimes.

Greater Seal of Armor

This is a standard pick for ADC’s and I consider it the best. I tried aswell playing with flat life or life per level runes, but I chose these runes as the best decision.

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Greater Mark of Attack Damage Greater Mark of Attack Speed

Well, you want to lasthit on the one hand, but you want to use your kit the best you possibly can. I adjusted the marks in favor of my personal preferences, but feel free to experiment with more attack speed or with full AD in marks, nothing is written in stone.

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Greater Glyph of Magic Resist Greater Glyph of Attack Speed

The same as in marks. You need a bit of magic resist to avoid AP poke on lane, but to support her kit you should consider taking a few glyphs of attack speed aswell.

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Greater Quintessence of Attack Speed

Who needs normal damage if you can deal faster true damage with more attack speed? That’s all Vayne depends on. Grab these for maximum success.

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OFFENSE TREE With Double-Edged Sword you deal as much damage as possible, it’s always worth to put a point in that. Attack speed increasing through Fury & Frenzy , attack damage increase due to Brute Force , Martial Mastery , Warlord and Havoc and finally a bit armor penetration with Devastating Strikes Butcher to boost your last hitting and Feast to get some life back while lasthitting. Executioner to deal even more damage to half life people and Dangerous Game to restore some health, when you finally hunted them down.

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DEFENSE TREE Block and Unyielding gonna prevent a few points of damage overall. With Recovery you push you Recovery per 5 seconds while Veteran Scars and Juggernaut complete the defense tree.

I just want to shortly discuss the advantages of certain items and when to buy them.
Must-Have:

Blade of the Ruined King is the first item to be finished. In the course of building Phantom Dancer you can finish your boots if nothing else would be possible to buy. You should get Berserker's Greaves at the latest after these two items.
Normally I build Infinity Edge right afterwards, but sometimes you need to made adjustance, but more later.
BUT: No matter what happens, you have to get these items in the course of the game, to secure your damage.

Viable:


You will get this item most likely aswell. The reason I didn’t put it into the tab “Must-Have” is, that you might play against a comp without a tank. Then it would make no sense to build a Last Whisper.
The last whisper should be build at the point of the game where your enemies get too much armor for you to deal decent with. This will occur normally after your Blade of the Ruined King / phantomdancer ( Infinity Edge). Infinity Edge may be build after Last Whisper if the enemy tank already got too much armor.

This is a good choice if you got enemies who constantly bursting you down.
banshees veil
A viable item for some situations, especially when they got only an APC who can burst you down.
mercurys scimitar
You don’t like CC? Remove it with this fancy item. Grab it against Leona / Lissandra kind of enemies.

I was asked to do this guide and to do it quick so I will add the rest tomorrow.

My guide will contain furthermore:

Spells
Skill Sequence
Laning Phase
Dueling
Teamfight
Objectives

Ty for your patience!

If you want to have more detailled informations about anything, comment and I will add it to my guide!