Talk:Vladimir/@comment-4929259-20120510012213/@comment-3419132-20120511190859

Vlad has some of the best minion farming, sustain, and poking as a mage. His Transfusion allows him to exchange blows between one another in the laning phase with him coming out on top because of its solid damage and health return. Vlad's E, Tides of Blood, should be your main damage ability. Fully stacked, its a force to be reckoned with. Early game stacking of his E can lead to your health being drastically low. But it increases healing and regeneration so later early game, to mid and late the heal return from his Q and even Health Pots can be great. Vlad's sanguine pool gives him some great surviability as proper timing with it could save your from completly fatal strikes or that last edge in escaping. But similar to his E, overusing it will leave you weak and generally without an escape method. Before i get to his ult and other things, Vlad's passive is near to one of the best in game. Building raw AP will still grant you a great amount of health. But building a balance between the two, as well as buying items that grant both (ex: "Vladimir's" Cyrstal Cepter) will give him strong survivability for a mage as well as a very high pool of AP. Vlad's ult is less its delayed damge, but that window of opprotunity that allows you to dish out incredible amounts of damage. Vlad's ult can be said similarly for Orianna's as a well placed one will turn a teamfight because of the overhaul of damage on them. Vlad still has a strong skill gap as he was nerfed but do NOT let that get the best of you.