Warwick vs Vayne — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Warwick against Vayne · 50.55% win rate over 813 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Winnable despite the lane — Vayne owns 6 of the 7 game windows, yet the win rate favours Warwick: survive their windows and the game is yours. Warwick wins 50.55% of games vs Vayne in top lane (813 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1VayneVayne's Condemn and Tumble spacing beat your short-range trades from level 1.
Level 2VayneLevel 2 stays hers as Condemn threatens to stun you out of every commit.
Level 3VayneLevel 3 favors Vayne because Tumble re-spacing denies your Q Jaws engage.
Levels 4-5VayneLevels 4-5 remain hers as her kite tools out-trade your dash-in.
Level 6Even / skillLevel 5 is a brief skill window where your peak all-in can catch a mispositioned Vayne.
First itemVayneAt 6 Final Hour stealth and Silver Bolts let her escape your R and out-DPS you.
Two+ itemsVayneWith two-plus items her true-damage hyper-carry scaling and kiting keep the matchup hers.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Vayne wins the early lane: Condemn knocks you out of your Q Jaws range or stuns you into a wall, and Tumble constantly re-spaces so you never get a clean trade. Don't dash in blindly, force her to waste E on a fake commit, and just farm safely while you're the weaker champ.

Read the rest of this matchup

The full Warwick vs Vayne report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.

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