Talk:Vladimir/@comment-3319068-20110622024752/@comment-3319068-20110622163939

NeonSpotlight, What contradiction? lmfao... people QQ and he was labelled "annoying" by the community. There is no contradiction, think before you speak please.

And your other argument, I agree with Rapacious, you speak as if you never played as Vlad, only against him. He is really bad early on (not sure how that changed this patch) and his healing is pretty small until he gets revolver or when he hits level 9, his auto-attacks are weak, his pool/ult/ToB all consume most of the bonus health he gets from AP and easily does more than he heals if he has to straight up fight (no poking/running).

Early on in the laning phase, his E/W do very small amounts of damage while still consuming health, and his Q is on a long cooldown until level 7/9. Easy to harass especially for characters like Ashe/Ezreal/LeBlanc/Urgot/Jarvan during laning in a solo until he has decent healing which he will try to poke you to death.

Like most champions (not Soraka), if fed he can carry pretty hard, but without being fed he isn't extremely strong or weak, he is intended to do decent damage, but even then he has to be really close to do so, thus his extra survivability from his bonus health/sanguine pool.

Any decent MR/Anti-health/healing effects/items can shut him down. One of Vlad's worst fears is a decent Malz player as malz's combo COMPLETELY shuts him down with silence, % max health damage, and a suppression, and even if he pools away malefic visions does the DoT through pool.

He has so many weaknesses, but people are so focused on standard builds and standard ways of playing and don't seem to choose to adapt to different ways of playing which is the 1400- ELO method of play so it seems.