Talk:Vladimir/@comment-178.166.54.236-20120615083531/@comment-4659726-20120615125045

He is a viable solo top and a mediocre mid. Often times he is only viable in high ELO because they get a lot of CS = more gold = faster late game items on him. He does decent damage for an AP carry but his real draw is is ult.

His ult is not only for him, but the whole team. If you build a team around his ult and he ults properly you can destroy the enemy team. Building a team around him and his ult has been shown to be deadly. Karthus ult+Vlad ult is one example of its "Deadliness" as you just use both and take away half their hp while you flash into their team and suicide with karthus(he is still alive lol) and AoE damage from vlad. Oh and the carry is probably ripping into the enemy team.

Also, vlad goes very good with the double AP meta, which has been weakened by the wota nerf but is still somewhat useful.