Talk:Vladimir/@comment-26433263-20150723163523/@comment-2242191-20150927054358

I think you're really overselling Vlad's early sustain, Nazareadain. He doesn't hit his stride until he gets WotA and 9th level, getting his Q on a low-enough cooldown to spam effectively. At the same time, his pool will still take around 22-26 seconds to come off cooldown, depending on his cdr, and still hurt him for 20% of his current health when he uses it. So what if Riven uses a few of her FOUR dashes? She gets them back a lot quicker than he gets his pool back, and one of them gives her a shield to help waste Vlad's harass, negate his spell vamp, essentially make him hurt himself with his E and W at the same time. Not to mention her two forms of cc and her passive, which all together help her rack up damage far too quickly for his piddly 55 + (25% AP) Q to keep up.

And this is still excluding Riven's choices in itemization to counter Vlad (starting Doran's Shield and building into Hexdrinker, to name a couple). If a Riven doesn't capitalize on his vunerable early game by utterly stomping him or simply zoning him from experience then she isn't doing her job.