Talk:Vayne/@comment-186.213.148.96-20120928221539/@comment-186.213.148.96-20120929031340

Madred is expensive, gives less atkspeed and doesn't give either movspeed or crit (the crit is a VERY important part of the build: near permacrit with huge attack speed and rather high AD (ult + bf/pickaxe) is deadly even against heavily amoured targets; the movspeed makes you impossible to run from and very hard to catch). The non-scaling on-hit of Madred's won't match up with the extra crit from a Phantom unless the target has stupidly high health, like 5k or above (ignoring armor and mr values).

The point of the build is replacing Last Whisper by another Phantom, and rushing "AS/Crit + some AD" instead of "AD/Crit + some AS". Your % true damage combined with really high dps you will obtain is enough to deal with the tanky targets, so you can focus on the utility/extra raw dps that a second phantom can give, for a lower price.

Vayne has an AD steroid and an on-hit steroid, she naturally scales better with AS/Crit instead of AD/Crit. An infinity + zeal (~5k) will not give significantly more dps than a pickaxe + phantom + zeal (~5k) will, but you will lose all that juicy movspeed and W damage.

Forgot to mention in op, the leveling order is R>W>Q>E, having at least a point in Q and E by level 2. The lower cooldown on Q isn't relevant by mid game when you are zapping by ~480 movspeed, but the extra dps of W is.