Talk:Vladimir/@comment-24.16.173.48-20120303062104/@comment-3238314-20120306162825

I'll admit that i'm wrong when i actually am.

Who gets wota on your team for you? your support or your ap top, because it gives you 110 ap and 40% spellvamp on a single item slot.

And i don't have any idea why you're talking about 2 v 5 scenarios in a team game. Vladimir's invincible in late game team fights because focusing him does shit, he regenerates your damage really fast, so who cares that he's short ranged? Also, he's not nailed to the ground, remember? he can kite and regen.

Any mage will have mana issues even late game without blue, because not all team fights are ambush->win. Vlad is not only mana independent, he can also regain his hp from nearby camps and so on and get back into his fights.

Vlad doesn't need to be more than 100 range closer to the team fight than other mages, but the good part is that he can take some damage, meaning that your AD carry will be less of a focus.

Also, like i said, because of his lack of dependency on mana and mana regen, the items he can get straight on have greater utility than the items other mages pick, and none of you are taking this into consideration.

So please don't go on about how vladimir is weak when you're not taking his strengths into consideration. Vladimir is a sustained damage/survivability in-your-face tanky mage, don't judge him by his long range burst or of course he'll be weak. Vladimir's problem when he was that compared to other mages, he had the same strong burst on lower cd and also lower range, while having insane sustain, bigger hp pool, and so on. now his burst is weaker, and his sustain and hp pool mitigated a bit. This doesn't make him weak, it makes him more in line. Deal with it and play him to his strengths instead of qq-ing