Deny Vayne the opportunity to pin you against walls.
Vayne is fragile - turn the pressure up on her and she will be forced to play cautiously.
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several valuable Nilah against Vayne matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences between the two. For instance, Nilah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Vayne’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nilah may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Vayne..
Nilah often has a similar longest kill spree as their counter does. Commonly, they takes more damage than Vayne. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nilah usually wins when taking on Vayne, with a 51.9% win rate. Thus, Nilah makes a good counter for Vayne.
While Nilah does have a higher winrate than Vayne, when they face off with one another, Nilah also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nilah into Vayneas their relative depth means that you may not be able to reach their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nilah has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vayne. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Nilah vs Vayne matchups, Nilah is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Nilah is a decent counter to Vayne. Focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nilah against Vayne.
To truly master Nilah in order to counter Vayne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nilah usually racks up a similar amount of CS as Vayne. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Nilah versus Vayne build consist of Stormrazor, Bloodsong, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Nilah bought at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better countering Vayne than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nilah boasted an average win rate of 51.9% when countering Vayne with these items in their kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Vayne as Nilah, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Nilah vs Vayne counterpicks, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.9% win rate overall.
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