Talk:Vladimir/@comment-199.234.90.214-20110817152131/@comment-76.6.42.57-20110819223147

He also loses to any agressive brand, cait, kass, malz, ryze, any ranged carry with lifesteal,, LB, really, any common mid. true, his level 9 q was a beast, but aside from that what did he have until teamfights? nothing. He has exactly one viable single target ability, and nerfing it by what amounts to 25% is huge, now instead of getting some freedom at level 9, he is only marginally bad instead of the unplayably weak that he is early game. he will always be underpowered due to the absurd CD on his only offensive ability that usable for lanes, until he gets another spell. I like how you say "oh, they should jsut be more conservative in lane" when hes already force dunder his tower for the entire laning phase. ANd usually, when a champ has to tower hug an entire laning phase, most people agree that they are, in fact, weaker than they should be.