Talk:Vladimir/@comment-70.249.147.32-20110217083750/@comment-3238314-20110217212518

Scenario isn't changed at all, it's every mid lane scenario you have. you just have to stay outside the range of transfusion which will force him to use it on minions, which gives you enough time to land nukes on him easily at low risk and retribution. I've been in this situation many times, it almost always plays out like this.

You try to play out the situation as if vladimir always lands his Q on you, like he'll never use it otherwise, though this is almost never the case. instead, like i mentioned, until lvl 7 his maximum life steal is about 50 at most. which you can negate with any auto attack, but you'll also have nukes, therefore taking more off him then he does off you. All you have to do is shave some health off of him, and he will use Q on cooldown to heal, effectively giving you harassment time.

You also emphasize way too much on his healing ability. He regains about 20/30/50 during the first 3 levels of the ability. Nidalee gains that ammount on lvl 1 of her heal ability, and champs with a decent lifesteal (like rushing a wriggle's plus doran's blade), or casters with the hp regen per max mana mastery can compensate for this even more.

You forget that his other abilities cost a hefty quantity of life, which is why he need a bigger health pool at the beggining. So can we please stop flogging this dead horse? There's nothing overpowered or even super special about his early game if you hit tim while his Q is on cd.