Talk:VPBE/@comment-35229418-20150901121659/@comment-35229418-20150903174130

Frozen Heart is decent, but AS slows do nothing against AA resets (even if it's once in a while, it still matters). Randuin is just worse than FH. Quicksilver is laughable, buying it against Vayne is like buying Randuin's Omen against Kayle. Zhonya's is bought by attackers, who don't want to try to counter her defensively to begin with. Same for lifesteal and spellvamp. Shield items? The only ones are Solari (no one would build it for Vayne) and Sterak (health with no resistances). Heal items? Like what, Spirit Visage?

But again, it's fine because Vayne needs to have something to be worth playing over Jinx or Twitch.

Auto > Q > E is so unrisky it's not even funny. Since the second is a reset and the third is an ability, Vayne needs the same time any other ADC needs to land two autoattacks. Q also lets her dodge the enemy skillshot in the trade (which anyway would be used instead of a second autoattack), and since E knocks the opponent back they can't retaliate after Vayne has used her spells. True, she can win MOST trades with it. A champion that's supposed to be weak early game wins MOST trades. Is that fine? Plus it's a combo that can be used while staying between minions, so the support can do nothing but watch unless it's Soraka or Leona. The first one will just turn it into a farm lane which Vayne wins anyway, the second is about the only true counter.

About Caitlyn and Kalista, yeah, they'd win a matchup, but that's about it. Caitlyn, while still good late game, is a dead weight compared to Vayne (less damage, less safety). Kalista's late game has different strengths and weaknesses but has the same overall power (Kalista's damage in a teamfight is higher thanks to Runaan's while Vayne kills single targets much faster), but Kalista is much more catchable than Vayne early game.

The only thing needed would just be to make E blockable by minions, regardless of the target. Basically, like a non pass-through skillshot, but targeted. Or heck, just make it a plain non pass-through skillshot and call it a day.