Talk:Vladimir/@comment-169.233.33.97-20121130023532/@comment-4659726-20121202040940

^ I've played tons of vlad. Nowadays Top lane is just painful for him due to what top laners are popular. If I have to provide examples, Irelia and Jayce who outright destroy Vlad or generally don't lose to him.

I don't find that he does snowball very easily. At least not anymore than other champions who don't have snowball as part of how they play.

Currently he works better mid lane than top, And this will be even more true when S3 rolls along and the things that make him a decent top (Mastery CDR and movespeed) are removed from the defense tree. Sure you could go offensive masteries but...right now you'll just get jumped on and probably die.