Talk:Vayne/Background/@comment-26837195-20151213005626/@comment-24385282-20160115032254

I agree. There aren't many dark-themed tank, they're all carries, and most of the carries aren't exactly light-themed (considering their main goal is to kill everything). Tanks and supports, on the other hand, exist pretty much solely to uphold balance or protect people or w/e, in both lore and gameplay. She has a good design and it fits with her Night Hunter theme, but dealing more damage to tanks than carries doesn't fit with this. Imo something better would be like more damage but its physical and has a flat amount that scales with +1% per 1% of enemy's missing health. That way it deals less to tanks and more to squishies. Besides she's the closest thing we've got to a marksman-assassin, but she shreds tanks at Kog'Maw levels, the opposite of an assassin's job.

Also I generally hate % max health true damage, since there's no way to itemize against it whatsoever. Vayne's gonna deal 6-12% of your maximum health with that third auto (or every third and fifth, thanks Sated Devourer) whether you have 0 armor and 10000000000, 1000 health or 1000 times 1000 health. This doesn't fit with her role (assassin) nor her theme (hunting dark champs, i.e. carries 99% of the time and tanks 1% of the time). Furthermore, it overlaps with a potentially overused ADC mechanic of dealing % max HP damage (Varus, Kog, Kalista, Kindred, etc.).

If you remove her tank-countering damage, she'll also be more likely to pick up items such as Lord Dominik's and Black Cleaver, which perhaps the only or the main reason she generally doesn't grab is because she focuses on True damage so she doesn't need the armor pen and between the % max health scaling on Silver Bolts and the % current health scaling on BotRK, she doesn't need more % HP damage from LD.

TL;DR: Vayne's % max health True damage is not fitting thematically nor gameplay-wise, is pretty much unnecessary for her to do well if it were replaced with a flat physical damage that dealt more to low-HP enemies, and overlaps with an overused ADC mechanic that makes more sense on other marksmen.

Alternatively, there's some very well-hidden lore stuff going on where Vayne secretly murdered her own parents and works with the Black Rose to kill all that is "good" rather than eradicating "evil."