Talk:Vladimir/@comment-98.155.8.52-20120331063124/@comment-77.249.233.124-20120405153751

^ Early game his CDs are very long, the shortest being on his E (4.5 seconds) which he can't spam early game due to the health costs involved. It's only when you max his Q you get something that's more spammable than that and even a 4 second CD isn't that spammable.

Just look at Cassio's CDs for example, she is also a spammy mage but her natural CDs are lower than Vlad's (by quite a bit in fact). Now she doesn't build CDR of course, but I think if Vlad wants to reach similar damage levels as Cassio he really needs CDR, especially early game but also late game. And unlike Cassio who doesn't benefit from CDR, Vlad can use every % of CDR to deal more damage and sustain more.