Talk:Vladimir/@comment-84.113.65.130-20120210221630/@comment-78.73.17.214-20120210223033

In Vlad's case, the core problem was that he gained so much free stats, which made him incredibly snowbally while having an extremely hard-to-balance kit on top of that. To make him possible to balance without breaking him, Riot chose to gut his passive in favor of his actual kit, since it gave him too much power if they'd just buff his kit. The current patch was actually a buff to Vlad's viabilty, even if that meant a weaker passive, and I doubt conversion passives are too big problems for Riot as long as you keep them in check. Singed is a great example of this.