Talk:Vladimir/@comment-3529242-20120306231247/@comment-86.29.128.242-20120307185459

his ult doesn't need to double damage to make it incredibly effective. look at it this way: an IE gives ~25% extra damage, and that's only on crits (50% of 200%), so you then times that by your Crit percent... which IE gives 25% of. so the passive part of infinity edge gives 6.25% extra damage.

people always consider IE the superior damage option to Bloodthirster on AD carries. all because of 25% crit and 50% extra ad on crit. which comes to a total of around 11~14% damage increase, not sure entirely. in other words, you are trading off sibstantial amounts of lifesteal for 11~14% damage increase.

And yet people prefer IE. thus, an 11~14% damage increase is significant, and thus vlad's ult (especially the fact it then stacks with IE's damage "bonus", and that it's free) is very very significant.