Talk:Vladimir/@comment-24.16.173.48-20120303062104/@comment-3497937-20120306033925

What makes you think 2 WoTA's makes you invincible? That's stupid in itself. It might give you better SV and make you a bit stronger.. but invincible? haha, walk into a team of 5 with your friendly aura WoTA + yours and then tell me how 'invincible' you were :)

Besides, unless your team has someone who needs a WoTA, why would they pick an extra one just for you? And since there already is 1 WoTA on the team, he might as well pick another item if he needs it.

And late game teamfights you aren't supposed to have any mana issues for ANY mage champ including anivia, karthus, etc. etc. Unless of course you roam around with your R as Swain on all the time afraid of having teamfights every 20 seconds. And teamfights normally don't last too long unless of course you have no damage dealers or the teams are all tanky.

Infact, offtanks, etc. relying on mana will face more mana related problems in teamfights than Swain or most mages.

Like I said before Vlad requires to be very close to even get his spells making him easy target. He is tanky with his passive, but vulnerable thanks to his small range. His CDs are small, but require you to be in the middle of a fight while Swain can just stop you off before you can get to him with his wealth of CC.. something Vlad has NOT.

Most mages have atleast 2-3 forms of hard CC.. Vlad has none. Swain has his Q+W. Cass has her W+ult. Morgana has her Q+ult, etc. etc. Only thing Vlad ever had going his way was short CDs, his W and his passive. And they killed his W and passive. W is useless now late game other than to dodge spells like Requim, etc. Because you can't even use it to escape successfully now that its lost its speed boost. His passive.. well.. they nearly halved its effectiveness. Nothing more to say. Having 500-800 extra health definitely doesn't make you tanky.