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Hi! I'm ifound1dollar, a Diamond Emerald Vayne main in North America. I first played Vayne in early season 5, immediately taking a liking to her playing her non-stop for quite literally years. Vayne has a very versatile kit, especially for a marksman: Mobility, hard CC, Invisibility, and True Damage! That's a dangerous combination on any champion, let alone a marksman, which is what makes Vayne such a fun and unique Champion.

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PROS +Mobile/slippery +Invisibility +Passive True Damage +Hard CC +Exceptional duelist Notes Vayne's kit enables her to be one of the strongest late-game marksmen; she's auto-attack based with an Attack Damage steroid, mobile, has self-peel thanks to Condemn, and her %max Health True Damage ensures that she's always relevant even when behind. Tumble allows her to keep herself safe and re-position, which is critical for a marksman with a short effective range. Invisibility while Final Hour is active complements this by denying enemies vision. Condemn, Vayne's hard CC ability, is very reliable and contributes to her being such an exceptional duelist. Her mobility and Invisibility, when paired with hard CC, gives her a lot of outplay potential.

CONS -Weak early game -Easily countered -Weak to hard CC -Low effective range -Difficult to master Notes Vayne has a weak early game; she's item reliant and quite weak before getting at least two. She's also easily countered in lane by champions like Caitlyn with superior range. Hard CC is another of her weaknesses; Vayne's short effective range puts her at risk of being locked down by abilities like Rakan's ult. Importantly, this low effective range is her greatest weakness. While her 550 attack range is average for many champions, she lacks any long-range abilities that other marksman like Miss Fortune have. This is why she's so difficult to master; the player must know when to engage and how to position to avoid being blown up instantly.

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Passive: Night Hunter Cost: None Cooldown: None Range: 2000 Vayne ruthlessly hunts evil-doers. She gains 30 Movement Speed while moving toward a visible enemy champion. Notes This ability may not seem to do much, but the movement speed turns out to be quite useful in fights.

Q: Tumble Cost: 30 Mana Cooldown: 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 2s Range: 250 Vayne tumbles, maneuvering to carefully place her next shot. She rolls towards the cursor and her next attack deals bonus damage equal to 75 / 85 / 75 / 105 / 115% (+50% Ability Power) of her total Attack Damage. This bonus damage is not increased if the attack Critically Strikes. Notes Tumble is Vayne's re-position ability, auto attack reset, and damage steroid. It plays a critical role in her kit, as it's her source of mobility and Invisibility. The player should use this ability frequently, potentially to kite/dodge skillshots or just to increase damage. Thresh hook coming your way? Tumble to the side. Xin Zhao jump on you? Tumble backward, away from him. Tip: Tumble resets Vayne's auto attack timer (there is a hidden 'timer' between each auto attack, Tumble resets it). Early in the game, Tumble can be used immediately following an attack to get two auto attacks off much faster than normal. One simply needs to attack, Tumble, and then attack again.

W: Silver Bolts Cost: None Cooldown: None Range: Self Vayne tips her bolts with a rare metal, toxic to evil things. The third consecutive attack against the same target will deal 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10% of the target's maximum Health as bonus True Damage (Max damage vs. monsters is capped at 200). Silver Bolts' damage bonus cannot fall below 50 / 65 / 80 / 95 / 110. Notes Silver Bolts is an extremely useful ability, especially against high-Health targets. While it's designed to shred any Health-stacking champion, it's still quite useful against lower-Health champions thanks to its minimum damage. This ability should almost always be maxed first for that reason. Even when considerably behind, a few procs of Silver Bolts on most champions is often enough to eliminate them from a fight. Tip: Silver Bolts stacks persist on champions that clone themselves (like Shaco or LeBlanc). This is an especially useful tool in teamfights since the everyone can see Silver Bolts stacks. For example, if there is a Silver Bolts stack on the enemy Shaco when he uses Hallucinate, the real champion can be identified by looking at which one has the stack.

E: Condemn Cost: 90 Mana Cooldown: 20 / 18 / 16 / 14 / 12s Range: 550 Vayne draws a heavy crossbow from her back, and fires a huge bolt at her target, dealing 50 / 85 / 120 / 155 / 190 (+0.5 per bonus Attack Damage) Physical Damage and knocking them back (475 units). If they collide with terrain, they're impaled, dealing 150% of Condemn's initial damage again and stunning them for 1.5 seconds. Notes Condemn is Vayne's CC ability; it's a knockback that can potentially stun the target. It's also her only targeted ability. While the ability itself doesn't deal much damage (especially at lower ranks), its utility as reliable self-peel is what's important. It also applies a stack of Silver Bolts to the target, allowing the player to proc Silver Bolts while only auto attacking twice. This can be done efficiently by: Attack -> Tumble -> attack -> Condemn. This combo can be risky, though, as it may knock the enemy to safety if the damage is not enough to be lethal. Tip: It's possible to wall-stun an enemy with Condemn even if they are not between Vayne and a wall. The ability can be used simultaneously with Flash to change the angle of the projectile and pull off a wall-stun that's near impossible for the enemy to dodge. The player must first cast Condemn, then just as the projectile begins to travel, Flash to put the enemy between Vayne and the wall. It causes the projectile to instantaneously change directions, causing the enemy to impact the wall. The interaction happens so fast that it's almost impossible to react to.

R: Final Hour Cost: 80 Mana Cooldown: 100 / 85 / 70s Range: Self Vayne gains 25 / 40 / 55 bonus Attack Damage for 8 / 10 / 12 seconds, extended by 4 seocnds whenever a champion damaged by Vayne dies within 3 seconds. Additionally, during the duration, Night Hunter instead grants 90 Movement Speed. The cooldown of Tumble is reduced by 30 / 40 / 50%, and grants Invisibility for 1 second. Notes Final Hour is a giant steroid. While active, it increases Vayne's Attack Damage, reduces Tumble's cooldown and grants Invisibility after its use, and increases her Movement Speed. Even early game when Vayne is still weak, hitting level 6 is a huge powerspike thanks to Final Hour. The bonus Attack Damage alone is enough to flip a 2v2 or 1v1, but when paired with Tumble's reduced cooldown and Invisibility, she can easily outplay her opponents by denying vision while dodging skillshots and re-positioning. The bonus Movement Speed is also quite useful, as it allows her to chase down any fleeing enemies.

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Vayne is a champion designed to have a weak early game but excel late game. This is because two of her 4 abilities have no actual base damage, and instead grant a stats steroid. Tumble is a prime example of this. It causes her next basic attack to deal bonus damage equal to a PERCENT of her total Attack Damage, so early game it will only deal a percentage of <100 AD, while late game it will deal a percentage of 300+ AD.

Because of Vayne's weak early game, she's often forced to play very passively/defensively in lane or risk dying and snowballing the enemy lane. However, there are a few ways she can actually excel in the botlane.


A winning lane for Vayne is a rare occasion, though. The majority of the time, she'll be facing champions who are much stronger in lane, like Caitlyn or Miss Fortune. When playing a losing lane, your goal should be to farm up as much as you can, as safely as you can. You're probably going to be poked down by the enemy support and/or ADC, so you'll likely be stuck sitting near your tower for much of the early game.


Vayne gets a large powerspike when she hits level 6, thanks to Final Hour's Invisibility and bonus Attack Damage. While this opens up a lot of opportunities for her in 2v2s, it's important to remember that the enemy botlane also gets a large powerspike at level 6, sometimes even moreso than Vayne.


Dragon is a very important objective that should never be underestimated, especially early in the game. If your team is contesting dragon, you need to be there; don't put your team at a disadvantage by allowing them to fight with one less teammate. If you have a wave of 10 minions crashing into your tower, you should still be walking to dragon pit to help out your team, even if you miss gold/exp as a result.

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Mid-game is when Vayne begins to scale up, though she's still somewhat weak. Teamfights are starting to occur, so this is when your mechanical skill finally starts to actually matter. The most important thing to remember is your job as an marksman: attack what's in front of you, and stay alive.


Mid-game is also when baron nashor comes into play. Don't underestimate the power of baron buff; it empowers minions and buffs champions' offensive stats, granting priority for whichever team that secures the buff. This is difficult to defend against as Vayne, since she already lacks wave clear. If the enemy team secures baron buff, your best bet is to try and stall out the baron buff and continue farming as much as possible.

On the flip side, if your team kills baron nashor, your job is to push lanes and seige with your empowered minions. The enemy team won't be able to wave clear easily, so it shouldn't take long to destroy objectives. However, while pushing, it's important to ward and watch for enemy flanks. If they get a successful flank on your team, they can ace you and completely halt your seige.

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Vayne finally begins to shine late game. At this point, both teams have probably pushed up to each other's inhibitors, and elder dragon has likely spawned. This is the point in the game where decision making is the most important aspect, because a single mistake can lose you an inhibitor or elder dragon, or even the game. Similar to mid game, it's your job as a marksman to survive and kill the front-line, but now, staying alive is even more important.


Objectives are usually the deciding factor late-game. You need to pay close attention to baron nashor and elder dragon at this stage in the game, because losing one can easily lose you the game. They both greatly increase your chances to win a teamfight with baron nashor's increased stats and elder dragon's DOT/execute, so your team should be forcing fights if you get either of them.

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