Talk:Vladimir/@comment-26420137-20150521100653/@comment-24496127-20150522235251

What poor early game? He's ranged, he stays back, he pokes melees, as long as he doesn't play like an idiot the jungler can't really gank him because he's ranged and has pool and flash if need be. After 1200 gold, he backs, gets hextech, and now what can you do?

His q is point and click with damage while healing him, and at level 5 it's got 3 points in it, enough to do decent damage and on a managable cd, his pool interrupts your burst for 90% of champions, he wins sustained fights and can kite pretty easily, and overall he isn't fun to play against. At all.

He also snowballs with absolutely no outplay potential if he gets ahead. If you screw up, pray that your jungler comes and helps, otherwise you'll just have to back every four undodgable unavoidable q's to the face, lest he towerdive you with the REQEW "combo" which resets the tower aggro.

Mundo doesn't ever even really go top anymore, and Nasus at least is melee, so if you DO zone him he can't retaliate or farm from a distance. Last point, they have no escapes, and pool cd being long just means a good vlad plays back once he uses it.