Talk:Vladimir/@comment-130.85.218.119-20120214004503/@comment-62.163.167.91-20120214195920

There are a ton of counters against vlad so I really don't see how he is OP in anyway. Ignite, vlad's dead. Quite a few (anti) mages (annie, kassadin, leblanc, fiddles, swain, veigar, cassiopeia, morgana), vlad's dead. Any %HP dmg (oh hey Vayne, is that madred's? *splat* and is that a DFG veigar? *boom*), vlad's dead. Add to that that he doesn't have any CC or the power to single handedly nuke down a whole team (annie I'm looking at you...) and you actually have a mage that doesn't fit anywhere unless your team knows how to play with a vlad in their team (I've seen way to many of my perfectly placed ults go poof without anyone doing any real attacking). Now if there were no vlad counters, sure he'd be OP, but I think vlad has more hard counters than the average champ out there. Sure his pool might be annoying, but it's hardly a game changer and many champs have way better escape tools (Ez? Kassadin? blanc? anyone else with a build in flash?). Really vlad has many obvious counters that hit him so hard he can essentially be taken out of the equation from the moment you leave champ select.