Talk:Vladimir/@comment-70.249.147.32-20110217083750/@comment-3358335-20110217171059

Not particularly, His early game accomplished the same thing as Eve's which is what the developer's creators said they didnt' want in the game. It forced the players facing him to hug their tower. It wasn't Vlad's nuke that was killing players mid it was his ability to slowly drain down the squishey player he was facing. Even if he only hits them once every minion wave he's getting health back his opposition wasn't.

Could you counter it by hugging your tower? Yes. You could hug your tower and early vlad couldn't kill you. But then again you are getting boxed out of farming and exp. The developer's said with Eve that they didn't like what that did to the game so any character that forces that to happen more often then not is up for getting hit. It's also why ranged characters across the board took speed hits a few patches ago.