Talk:Vladimir/@comment-198.111.166.157-20120406163216/@comment-2124153-20120409230435

Spoiler alert, TSM destroyed CLG. Since you apparently missed the awards ceremony, they came in first after 2-0'ing CLG in the deciding match. Dyrus on Vlad was a huge part of it. Repeat: CLG doesn't ban out Vlad, loses horribly.

The point of this debate, is to further the education of a Vlad main that's completely out of his tree (that's you). Hemoplague is stupid broken, which is why it's on a huge cooldown even after being nerfed twice now. Most people use lazy math and multiply 12% by some fictional team damage figure, not realizing that in addition to enabling AOE team comps, a 12% damage add on your triple-multiplicative-scaling hypercarry lets them blow the enemy team into liquid shit. Do you have any idea how huge it is for a carry to get a 12% damage boost? Ask your Vayne, after she finishes Penta-killing the enemy team with four-digit crits.

Vlad's "strong suit" is to poop all over the enemy team with Hemo, throw out repeatable Tides damage that can't be ignored (unlike a one-and-done AOE caster champion like Galio), drop aggro whenever he pleases with Hourglass/Trollpool, and optionally run double-duty interference with Trollpool to keep the enemy team stuck together and/or protect your carry's positioning.

Clerks 2 was dumb as shit, but not quite as dumb as Vlad's kit. Unfortunately for the human race, we're stuck with both of them.