Talk:Vladimir/@comment-118.208.213.120-20110701121417/@comment-139.130.57.34-20110703004045

He doesn't have any early game laning sustainability. He heals for a low amount. You want to know a champion with good laning sustainability? Play Nidalee. He gets to level 9 and he's good, but in many games laning is over by then. In most cases Vlad can only just survive, hoping to not die until level 9 before he starts pwning. No unique as being he's a mage that casts abilities off his own life. Pool despite all the QQ is an interesting mechanic and getting a good ult does actually require skill for someone with no real CC to keep people in the fight after ulting them.

Swain is first and foremost a controller. I hate how people only think about his ult heal and go "yeah he's a tanky mage".