Vayne vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Vayne
based on 4,547 Vayne vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vayne vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Vayne vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Vayne
Tips for Playing as Vayne against Soraka
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
Advice to Win Against Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Vayne vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Vayne in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several critical Vayne versus Soraka matchup statistics that can help us interpret the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Soraka’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Vayne may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Soraka. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Vayne often has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Soraka. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vayne and Soraka
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Who is Better, Vayne or Soraka?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Vayne usually wins when facing off against Soraka, with a 51.6% win rate. Thus, Vayne makes a good counter for Soraka.
While Vayne does have a higher winrate than Soraka, when they face off with one another, Vayne also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Vayne into Sorakaas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vayne has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Soraka. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vayne vs Soraka matchups, Vayne is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Vayne is a decent counter to Soraka. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Vayne against Soraka.
Other Champion Matchups Against Vayne
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vayne to counter Soraka during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne on average racks up much more CS as Soraka. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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 need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Vayne versus Soraka build consist of Guardian Angel, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Terminus. When Vayne used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Soraka than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vayne boasted an average win rate of 51.6% when countering Soraka with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Soraka as Vayne, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Vayne vs Soraka battles, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.6% win rate overall.
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