Mastering Vayne Top: The Ultimate Guide to Climbing Ranked in Patch 25.10
So, you want to dominate the top lane, shred tanks, and carry your team as Vayne? You're in the right place. This guide will take you step by step through everything you need to climb ranked with Vayne in Patch 25.10. We'll cover builds, ability orders, combos, threats, synergies, and the best ban choices to ensure you're unstoppable.
Why Play Vayne Top?
Vayne is one of the strongest hyper-carry champions that excels at taking down tanks and bruisers. She scales incredibly well, and if played correctly, she can solo carry games. With her mobility, percentage health damage, and ability to kite and reposition, she becomes a nightmare for frontline champions.

Starting Items (Level 1)
- Doran’s Blade – Grants sustain and extra damage for better early trades.
- Health Potion – Keeps you healthy in lane.
- Stealth Ward – Essential for vision control.
First Back (~5-7 minutes)
- Berserker’s Greaves – Boosts attack speed for better trading and farming.
- Recurve Bow – Prepares for Blade of the Ruined King.
- Control Ward – Helps maintain lane vision.
Core Build (~10-15 minutes)
- Blade of the Ruined King – Grants lifesteal and percentage health damage, perfect for shredding tanks.
- Guinsoo’s Rageblade – Converts crit chance into on-hit damage, making your autos even deadlier.
- Kraken Slayer – Provides true damage on every third attack, countering high-armor champions.
Mid-Game (~15-20 minutes)
- Wit's End – Adds magic resist and on-hit magic damage, helping against AP threats.
- Terminus – Grants sustain and bonus damage based on missing health.
Late Game (~20+ minutes)
- Guardian Angel – Provides a revive, making you harder to kill.
- Elixir of Wrath – Boosts AD and lifesteal for final fights.
Situational Items
- Randuin’s Omen – Great against crit-based champions like Yasuo and Tryndamere.
- Mortal Reminder – If enemies have heavy healing (Soraka, Vladimir, Aatrox).
- Jak’Sho, The Protean – If you need extra durability in extended fights.
Final Build Example
- Berserker’s Greaves
- Blade of the Ruined King
- Guinsoo’s Rageblade
- Kraken Slayer
- Wit's End
- Terminus (or Guardian Angel for safety)

Max Order: Q → W → E, with R whenever available.
Leveling Guide:
- Q - Tumble (Level 1)
- W - Silver Bolts (Level 2)
- E - Condemn (Level 3)
- Q - Tumble (Level 4)
- Q - Tumble (Level 5)
- R - Final Hour (Level 6)
- Q - Tumble (Level 7)
- W - Silver Bolts (Level 8)
- Q - Tumble (Level 9)
- W - Silver Bolts (Level 10)
- R - Final Hour (Level 11)
- W - Silver Bolts (Level 12)
- W - Silver Bolts (Level 13)
- E - Condemn (Level 14)
- E - Condemn (Level 15)
- R - Final Hour (Level 16)
- E - Condemn (Level 17)
- E - Condemn (Level 18)

Basic Combos
- AA → Q → AA – Auto-attack, Tumble, then attack again for fast damage.
- E → AA → Q → AA – Use Condemn to push an enemy into a wall, then follow up with attacks and Tumble.

Advanced Combos
- R → Q → AA → E → AA – Activate Final Hour, reposition with Tumble, then Condemn.
- E → Flash → AA → Q → AA – Use Condemn, then Flash mid-animation to reposition the enemy into a wall for a stun.

Escape Combo
- E → Q → AA – Use Condemn to knock an enemy away, then Tumble to reposition.

The worst matchups for Vayne top are heavy armor stackers and early-game bullies. Here’s who you should ban:
Top Ban Priorities
- Malphite – Hard counters Vayne with high armor and a strong engage.
- Wukong – Can gap-close, burst, and sustain through trades.
- Ornn – Out-tanks her and provides strong crowd control.
- Heimerdinger – Turret zoning makes it difficult for Vayne to farm or trade.
- Yasuo – Wind Wall blocks her auto-attacks and he out-duels her

Vayne benefits from junglers who enable her mobility, mid laners who provide CC, and supports who protect her.
Best Jungle Synergies
- Taliyah – Long-range crowd control and burst damage.
- Volibear – Strong dive potential and early-game pressure.
- Lillia – Slows and sleep effects help Vayne chase down enemies.
Best Mid Lane Synergies
- Zed – Forces enemies to focus on him, letting Vayne clean up fights.
- Sylas – Steals ultimates and disrupts enemy teams.
- Syndra – Long-range poke and CC helps Vayne set up kills.
Best Support Synergies (if played bot)
- Lulu – Shields, movement speed buffs, and polymorph to protect Vayne.
- Nautilus – Strong engage and CC.
- Nami – Healing, movement speed buffs, and crowd control.

With this guide, you’re ready to climb ranked, destroy tanks, and carry games with Vayne top. If you master her combos, optimize your build, and understand matchups, you’ll become a solo queue menace.
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