Talk:Vladimir/@comment-3532889-20110809203903/@comment-205.188.117.70-20110809215253

The problem is that trans is his ONLY viable spell for good portions of the game particularly the laning phase and a while afterwards. While trans was certainly an extremely powerful weapon, aside from his e (which does very poor damge unless its stacked, and costs you much needed early game HP) is the only practical spell to fight with in the lane. because of this changes to his q are essentially changes to his single target dps. The problem isnt that his q is too weak (its still better than most comprable spells in my opinion) its that its all hes got.

I still main vlad because as an aoe dps, he is obscenely effective at killing the enemy squishies in a teamfight. What really needs to change to make vlad balanced is his overreliance on a single spell, my idea is changing his e to be a viable option for hitting single targets. (anyone please feel free to list options, im having a creative block) This would fix his laning phase by a) making him not 100% dependent on the long cd trans for protection (vlad is pretty much incapable of winning in a stright fight 1v1 against most champs in lane, when any common mid jumps on him when he goes to attack anything, all he has s his short range, long cd q to defend himself), and b) allows riot to tweak him without ruining him/making him OP.