Talk:Vayne/@comment-8969250-20130713200546/@comment-5604521-20130714200357

I did my own LoLKing research.

TL;DR: Vayne may FEEL OP, but she really isn't. She hardly wins 50% of her games in lower elos, but in higher elos she is above 50% but not by much. I'm pretty sure she isn't a problem based on the stats.

In Bronze and Silver, she's solidly picked in a quarter to a third of all games, but her win ratio struggles to stay above 50%. In Bronze it doesn't go above 49% but in Silver it hits 51%.

In Plat/Diamond she is picked about 40% of the time atm, and her win ratio is clearly above 50% (about 52% -ish)

In both cases though, the graphs are scaling upwards. So she's being played an increasing amount, but only the higher tiers seem to know how to really win with her.

I have no idea what is considered "OP" and at what stats Riot considers nerfing her (I can tell you now, they don't base it on Bronze/Silver stats but almost exclusively on Diamond+ games and the pro circuit)

In my experience in Bronze, that 33% pick ratio is really surprising. I imagined anything close to 70% because it is very rare that she is not chosen in a game I play. When I'm first pick, I ban her purely because I am SICK of having one in the game. I feel like she's too strong in the laning phase and at my low elo, nobody knows how to stamp out her early game so she gets fed very easily. They say she's a late-game hypercarry but she doesn't lack anything in the early-mid game so she's just so strong all around. I guess the stats don't really reflect that though, since she is still only winning 48% of her games in Bronze.