Vayne General Guide by mervsenpai

A Short Introduction

Hey guys, I'm Merv, y'all can call me Senpai. I main the AD Carry role. I have been playing Vayne ever since she replaced my previous main ADC.

This guide is based on my preference on my style of playing Vayne and learning points I have learnt while playing this great champion. This build is actually legit, I have used it in many ranked games to carry my team to Victory. Do not take anything that is somehow (idk how) offensive to you lightly. You don't have to listen to me though, I'm not Doublelift Senpai or Wildturtle Senpai.

This guide consists of detailed information about all you need to know while playing Vayne including Summoner Spells, Item Build, Abilities, Runes and Masteries. Well, some videos will be linked below for those who learn better by watching.

Purge With Silver

Vayne is a ranged Hyper Carry, ADC, Marksman, Super Late Gamer, Good Snowballer that will carry your entire team to victory, especially if its late game. She does really good DPS to single targets, she relies on her basic attacks more than her abilities. Vayne isn't like a prefect champion, so it does have weaknesses, but also has strengths. Her W passive, Silver Bolts, gives her tons of damage, especially in late game as it scales with 8% of target's health at max level.

Pros:

-> Auto-attack reset, Tumble
-> Knock-back stun Condemn
-> Invisibility from her Ultimate , Final Hour when you Tumble
-> Mid to late game, she becomes assassin-like
-> Good chaser Night Hunter
-> True Damage Silver Bolts
-> Easy to kite enemies

Vayne is not an ADC with a huge range, giving her an disadvantage in lane, she wouldn't be able to last hit or poke the enemy if they have a longer range. But her Tumble makes farming a lot easier, you'll never miss a creep! Vayne is the few ADC with hard CC. Condemn can stun anybody (if it collides with a solid object) or least knock away anybody harassing you. She has a ton of damage with and without AD items as her W ability, Silver Bolts, does true damage (that's why some people play Top Lane Vayne). She has high initial damage early (if you get your third hit), middle and late game. Lastly, her passive, Night Hunter, allows her to chase easily and Final Hour grants more movement speed invisibility when you Tumble (she clearly is batwoman). Vayne is a great champion to play.


Cons:

-> Pretty short ranged
-> Not easy to hit the third hit of Silver Bolts
-> Needs good positioning
-> Difficult to learn
-> No "poke"

Wayne has cons too, every good champion always has flaws. As mentioned, she doesn't have the biggest and longest (omg what) range and have a pretty low base attack speed, she pretty much gets zoned and lose pretty often in the early game. She loses a lot of trades unless she can land her Silver Bolts. Her positioning is the key of a good Vayne, super important, which makes her not easy to master as a poorly executed Condemn can literally save an enemy. With a good position, she can Condemn her enemy into a solid object to get stunned. The worst part of Vayne is that she must rely on her teammates early game, if they lose their lane and Vayne (super weak early) loses too, then the game is an instant GG. She also isn't the easiest champion to master, like failing to execute a good Condemn or not knowing when to activate your Final Hour could lead to flaming teammates, and will affect your gameplay.

Friends

** These champions are not arranged based on anything or whatever, but in alphabetical order **

** Numbers are how well they are synergized **

Ratings are as follows:
"Excellent" being a great and recommended choice and matches Vayne's playstyle
"Good" being a pick that lanes with Vayne's pretty good
"Okay" being a fair pick, playstyle doesn't match Vayne as well
"Don't even try" being DON'T EVEN F*CKING TRY as it sucks. Not the champion, but the supporting ability.

Alistar (Undone) Text to be inserted.

Annie (Undone) Text to be inserted.

Blitzcrank (Undone) Text to be inserted.

Braum (Excellent) Braum is one of my favorite supports for Vayne, especially since of his great peeling potential. Braum could protect Vayne from getting poked because of his tankiness. He is a good support to be played with Vayne if you want to play super passive. His passive, Concussive Blows, procs with Vayne's Silver Bolts. This would lead the enemy to getting stunned for 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 seconds and take magic damage, allowing Vayne to follow-up with a stun of her own, Condemn. Winter's Bite deals damage, slows by 70% and applies a stack of Concussive Blows, this is a great poke and crowd control ability. Stand Behind Me allows Braum to jump to an ally and grant both his ally and himself bonus 15 / 17.5 / 20 / 22.5 / 25 (+10 / 11.5 / 13 / 14.5 / 16% bonus armor) bonus armor and 20 / 22.5 / 25 / 27.5 / 30 (+10 / 11.5 / 13 / 14.5 / 16% bonus magic resist) bonus magic resist for 3 seconds. This ability is similiar to Lee Sin's Safeguard except that it doesn't shield, but grant armor and magic resist. Stand Behind Me could be combo-ed up with Braum's next ability, Unbreakable, to peel for Vayne. Unbreakable allows Braum to raise his shield to intercept incoming projectiles for the next 3 / 3.25 / 3.5 / 3.75 / 4 seconds, take 30 / 32.5 / 35 / 37.5 / 40% reduced damage and gain 10% bonus movement speed for himself. Stand Behind Me is similiar to Yasuo's Wind Wall, except that it only blocks one direction and it follows Braum. Lastly, Glacial Fissure is a crowd control ability that damages, knocks up for 1.5 seconds and / or slows enemy in a line by 60% for 1.5 seconds. This ability is a great skill to disengage and to get annoying assassins off your carry. I would give Braum's synergy with Vayne a rating of "Excellent", just because they aren't really strong early.

Gragas (Undone) Text to be inserted.

Janna (Excellent) Okay, I'll be straight up honest with you guys, I used to hate Janna as a champion overall last time, even thought she got them ahem, still, I THOUGHT she was weak. But seriously, Janna is a scary support. She is just so defensive. Okay, she can counter engage and peel, she has a great kit to fit in perfectly for Vayne. Let me start, Vayne has a very weak early because she doesn't have a lot of range or damage, its not easy to land three autos to hit enemies with Silver Bolts and Vayne gets poked down very easily early game. Fear not, Eye Of The Storm gives a shield to protect you, wait that's not all, it gives FIFTY ATTACK DAMAGE (at max level), that's a B.F. Sword, it helps Vayne trade back easily. Howling Gale and Zephyr helps CC down the enemy / enemies so Vayne can get three autos to proc Silver Bolts. Tailwind also stacks with Night Hunter. To all those mainstream support or ADC main players out there saying "oh Janna sucks, only defensive-passive lane, so f**king boring support, I'm just gonna play Morgana", well you got to first shut up and secondly, give Janna a shot. Janna can trade so well, her Eye Of The Storm neglects the damage done to her and gives her AD to b**chslap you out of the lane. That's right, go hide under your tower. Janna's Zephyr and Tailwind gives her a ton of movement speed and mobile to get to lane faster and ward (sometimes, even warding mid lane!). Lastly, her Monsoon, it can disengage a teamfight well and also peel and protect your team and you. Giving Janna a "Excellent" rating cause of her amazing defensive kit.

Karma (Undone) Text to be inserted. Karma's a b*tch.

Leona (Excellent) Leona is another one of my favorite tanky supports, as she can peel so well and engage. She has 2 stuns for more peeling ability! Sunlight basically applies a stack on enemies upon spell cast, allies' attacks consume the debuff to deal bonus magic damage. Shield of Daybreak enhances Leona's next basic attack to deal more damage and stun the enemy for 1.25 seconds. This is also an auto-attack reset, helps to push towers faster, bonus damage applies on towers too. Eclipse raises her shield to gain more bonus armor and magic resist and scales with armor and magic resist too and does damage. Eclipse makes Leona a lot tanky, making her not squishy. Zenith Blade allows Leona to project an image of her sword. Last enemy champion to be hit will be immobilized for 0.5 seconds and Leona will dash to him / her. This skill allows Leona to dash to enemies killing Vayne and peel for her and this skill also allows Leona to engage in teamfights. Solar Flare is an AoE ability that Leona calls down from above, enemies caught in the center of the ability will be stunned while the enemies along the side is slowed for 1.5 seconds. This skill is good for teamfights and to crowd control assassins on your carry. Overall, I would give Leona's synergy with Vayne an "Excellent" as she can peel, tank and engage for the team and her carries.

Lulu (Undone) Text to be inserted.

Morgana (Excellent) Ahhh Morgana, she is so annoying yet so strong. Firstly, pay NO attention to her passive Soul Siphon as it sucks (on supports). Her Dark Binding snares the enemy hit for 2 / 2.25 / 2.5 / 2.75 / 3 seconds (at max rank), this is one of her CC skills. When the enemies are snared, Vayne can reposition and get probably proc Silver Bolts once already and when the snare ends, Vayne could use Condemn for another CC. Her W, Tormented Soil is an AoE damage spell, it can proc slows from Rylai's Crystal Scepter and poke enemies to proc her Spellthief's Edge's Tribute ability. However, this skill DOES push the lane so make sure your support doesn't spam it too much. Her E, Black Shield is another reason why Morgana is so strong. Morgana places a shield on a friendly ally and this shield absorbs 95 / 160 / 225 / 290 / 355 (+70% AP) magic damage at max rank and prevents ALL crowd control disables for 5 seconds or until the shield has been depleted. Black Shield and Mikael's Crucible makes sure that you can't / won't be CC-ed during fights. Lastly, her ultimate, Soul Shackles deals magic damage to nearby enemy champions and slows their movement speed by 20% for up to 3 seconds. Additionally, if Morgana stays within 600 range of the targets for the full 3 seconds, they are dealt the same magic damage again and become stunned for 1.5 seconds. Soul Shackles is a good teamfight ability as if timed correctly, could CC an entire enemy team. I would give Morgana's support ability an "Excellent" because of her CC and anti-CC shield.

Nami (Excellent) Nami is one of my favourite supports with any AD Carry. Reason being is her kit is just so amazing, however just underplayed. Firstly, her passive Surging Tides is just so good together with Vayne's passive Night Hunter as they stack. Just by hitting her ability on her ally could grant them movement speed for 1.5 seconds. Her Aqua Prison deals damage and stuns for 1.5 enemies caught in it. If she lands her Aqua Prison, Vayne could have time to reposition herself for a great Condemn making it a double-stun bot. Ebb and Flow makes up for Vayne's poor laning phase. As Vayne has a pretty short range, she will get poked, but Ebb and Flow could heal back Vayne and also poke them back. Not to mention a recommended item for Nami, Ardent Censer, which gives attack speed too. Her Tidecaller's Blessing boosts Vayne's autoattacks to make it deal bonus magic damage and slow the enemy at the same time, not forgetting that it like proc Surging Tides too. Lastly, her ultimate, Tidal Wave briefly knocks up enemies that it comes in contact with, slowing them by 50 / 60 / 70% and dealing magic damage. The slow duration increases based on how far the Tidal Wave has traveled, with a minimum duration of 2 seconds and a maximum of 4 seconds. It can change a teamfight if wellplaced. Overall, I would give Nami a rating of "Excellent" as her skills not easy to be placed.

Nidalee (Don't even try) No text to be inserted because Nidalee support sucks. Don't play Nidalee support I beg you, it sucks.

Sona (Undone) Text to be inserted.

Soraka (Don't even try) Not gonna insert any text. Soraka support sucks, you want sustain, go play Nami, Sona, Taric etc etc.

Taric (Undone) Text to be inserted.

Thresh (Undone) Text to be inserted.

Zilean (Undone) Text to be inserted.

Zyra (Undone) Text to be inserted.

Foes

** This section is Vayne's match ups **

** These champions are not arranged based on anything or whatever, but in alphabetical order **

** Numbers are how difficult it is to be match-up with **

Difficulty Levels are as follows:
"Easy" being that Vayne can counter him / her back
"Okay" being that Vayne can defeat him / her, and mistakes will determine who'll win
"ARGH" being that Vayne get countered hard by him / her

Ashe (Undone) Text to be inserted.

Caitlyn (Undone) Text to be inserted.

Corki (Undone) Text to be inserted.

Draven (Undone) Text to be inserted.

Ezreal (Undone) Text to be inserted.

Graves (Undone) Text to be inserted.

Jinx (Undone) Text to be inserted.

Kog'Maw (Undone) Text to be inserted.

Lucian (Undone) Text to be inserted.

Miss Fortune (Undone) Text to be inserted.

Quinn (Undone) Text to be inserted.

Sivir (Undone) Text to be inserted.

Tristana (Undone) Text to be inserted.

Twitch (Undone) Text to be inserted.

Urgot (EASY) Are you f*cking kidding me? You opened this spoiler to read about Urgot. You got to be kidding, who the f*ck plays Urgot

Varus (Undone) Text to be inserted.

Vayne Can Cast Spells Too

Flash

Flash I swear Flash is a must have on all squishy champions with no escape. Even though Vayne has Tumble and Condemn to escape and push away, Flash could be used aggressively to reposition for a Condemn, to secure a kill cause Night Hunter isn't enough. Or Flash could be used defensively, to run away like a big coward, use to juke or get away from whatever (example. Super Mega Death Rocket!. Flash is a better safe. Replace this with Ghost if you are not yet level 12.

Heal

Heal As of Patch 4.5, Summoner Spell Heal is one of the most overpowered spell in the game. Just because at around mid to late game, it heals more than Barrier. Heal is also two Barrier. Down at bottom lane, both the Marksman (ADC) and Support can run Heal. Did I mention that it gives you movement speed too? Heal is a heal, means it lasts permanently, while Barrier only last for 2 seconds. It also removes Ignite's reduced healing, but the Heal will be affected by the reduced healing. This means its an anti-assassin spell. All in all, take Heal over Barrier. As of Patch 4.13, Heal has been nerfed, but you could still take it if you want to heal other teammates, but I honestly think Barrier is a stronger choice.

Barrier

Barrier Barrier is in my opinion one of the best summoner spells in the game for non-specific survivability. Flash and Barrier will save you a lot early game. Barrier often catches people by surprise, and can be the summoner spell to turn the tide in your favour when dueling the enemy ADC, or even surviving an enemy's Ignite. I honestly prefer Heal. Take Barrier if you're selfish or running a solo lane.

Cleanse

Cleanse Cleanse is useful if you can use it during the duration of that 1-2 second stun/taunt/etc. I would take this if I'm up against like Varus with his Chain of Corruption or Sona with her Crescendo. Cleanse is good early, but late game, people would buy a Quicksilver Sash already. In addition from removing disables, it also removes debuffs like Nasus' Wither or Exhaust. If you don't have a fast reaction and control of your micro seconds, DON'T take Cleanse.

Ignite

Ignite Ignite alone with a proc of Silver Bolts and probably a little of your Support's damage (example, Sona, Lulu, Leona) could get you a kill early game to snowball your game. Also, Ignite allows you to reduce enemies incoming healing while example like dueling an enemy ADC (reduced lifesteal). Ignite also counters late game tankers stacking health like Dr. Mundo. I would not recommend picking up Ignite over Cleanse / Barrier, especially since they removed Summoner's Wrath during Preseason 4.

Power Boosts

Greater Quintessence / Mark / Glyph of Attack Speed

Attack Speed As of Patch 4.5, Greater Quintessence of Life Steal got nerfed, while Greater Quintessence of Attack Speed got buffed. I recommend taking the Greater Quintessence of Attack Speed and the other attack speed runes just because it has gone a lot stronger. The bonus attack speed helps in early game farming and the attack speed is scales good in mid to late game.

Greater Quintessence of Life Steal

Life Steal Greater Quintessence of Life Steal As one of the cons, Vayne is pretty short-ranged. She will get poked hard by the enemy laners. With the Greater Quintessence of Life Steal along with Doran's Blade or in General, Lifesteal, lets you to actively regain health, by last hitting, or auto-attacking. Lastly, Lifesteal has little ways to get either by masteries, runes and two viable ADC items ( Blade of the Ruined King The Bloodthirster. As Life Steal is absolutely must on an ADC, it's definitely worth it to get this.

Greater Quintessence / Mark of Attack Damage

Attack Damage Greater Quintessence of Attack Damage and Greater Mark of Attack Damage is good stat to have in the early game. With the Greater Mark of Attack Damage and an Greater Quintessence of Attack Damage, this lets you poke your enemy and farm or last hit easier. Also, you can farm easier under your tower if you're losing your lane!

Greater Seal of Health

Health As of Patch 4.5, Greater Seal of Armor got nerfed and in return, they gave every champion a bonus 4 Armor. Also, Greater Seal of Health got a buff. MATH TIME! Greater Seal of Armor gives 1 armor each, and since they gave us 4 armor back, we could take out 4 Greater Seal of Armor for something else. We replace with Greater Seal of Health just because with the early game health, we can take poke less lightly.

Greater Seal of Armor

Armor Greater Seal of Armor is a must down at the bottom lane. As you will get poked down hard by the enemy, armorr is the best counter. The runes will also allow you to trade damage with the enemy more, and also not be so squishy.

Greater Glyph of (Scaling) Magic Resist

Magic Resist Greater Glyph of Magic Resist and Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist are the best choice. Let me explain why there is Greater Glyph of Magic Resist and Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist at the same time. Greater Glyph of Magic Resist gives flat Magic Resist which helps you early game to counter people like Ezreal and Varus that can do tons of Magic Damage. This also helps you from getting poked from enemy supports too like Sona, Lulu and even Nidalee. However, Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist is most useful late game against heavy AP Carries or Fat Mid Laners. I do not suggest skipping the flat Magic Resists Glyphs as you need them early as the enemy Mid Laner will gank bottom lane sooner or later.

Masteries

3/5

1/1

3/5

1/1

1/1

3/5

3/1

1/

1/

3/

1/

2/5

2/1

1/1

3/5

1/1

How Vayne Does It

Maxing Tumble First Sequence

Ability Sequence
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18

Maxing Silver Bolts First Sequence

Ability Sequence
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18

Magic Steriods

Blade of the Ruined King / The Bloodthrister

Main Damage Item Blade of the Ruined King OR The Bloodthirster is your main damaging item and also lifestealing item. I know Infinity Edge looks good, but it really lacks the lifesteal that is really important on Vayne

Youmuu's Ghostblade / Phantom Dancer / Last Whisper

Boosters Next up, Youmuu's Ghostblade, Phantom Dancer OR Last Whisper. Pick two of them. These items I prefer to call "Boosters" as they give attack speed / critical chance / armor penetration. After my main damage item ( Blade of the Ruined King or The Bloodthirster, I would go for either Phantom Dancer or Youmuu's Ghostblade as they give attack speed and critical chance. Attack speed just scales too well with Vayne's kit and her Silver Bolts, to add on to that, Final Hour gives her AD. After the second item, I get the "Anti-tank" items, either Youmuu's Ghostblade or Last Whisper. If the enemy team has no one stacking health, get The Bloodthirster or Blade of the Ruined King whatever based on your first item, OR Infinity Edge for that huge attack boost. Youmuu's Ghostblade or Last Whisper many would ask? It actually depends, I really love Youmuu's Ghostblade because its so gold efficient (176.9% while active is on), however Last Whisper is better if the enemy team is getting like example full armor (eg. 400 armor). This is because Youmuu's Ghostblade just deducts 10 armor, while Last Whisper ignores 35% armor, let me emphasize, thirty-five PERCENT.

Infinity Edge / The Bloodthrister

text

Berserker's Greaves / Zephyr

text

Update Log

08/04/2014 (Minor Changes)

Inserted Update Log chapter

13/04/2014 (Removed)

Added The Bloodthirster under Possible Last Items. Completed Runes Chapter. Added Leona, Blitzcrank and Nunu under her Synergies. Added Nasus, Caitlyn and Quinn under her Counters.

15/04/2014 (Removed)

Added Nami, Sona and Annie under her Synergies.

27/04/2014 (Patch 4.5)

Changed the build, runes and Summoner Spells ( Heal) instead of Barrier

24/06/2014 (Patch 4.10)

Came back after a long break and rewrote outdated content.

25/06/2014 (Minor Changes)

Cleaned up sections to look neater

26/06/2014 (Minor Changes)

Updated some sections and added more details, still incomplete in time being. Separated "Friends & Foes" section into two different sections, "Friends" AND "Foes".

27/06/2014 (Minor Changes)

Grammer mistakes corrected (thanks for correcting me!) and added some information.

30/06/2014 (Rune Changes)

Changed Runes to as off follow NA Challenger ADC Main, Hi Im Gosu's runes. Urgh I love this rune page so much.

04/07/2014 (NEW Section!)

Updated "Friends" section, and some BB coding. Added items section (work in progress)

04/08/2014 (Patch 4.13)

Changed Runes to safer option, updated many sections, Summoner Spells changed.

21/08/2014 (Patch 4.14)

Well my examinations are over, found more time to finish up