Talk:Vladimir/@comment-5989852-20140109054349/@comment-4538269-20140203203848

I don't like it but I can give the build a try...

But with your build...Merc's, SV, Sunfire/Rand, Warmogs, VS, and...Zhonya's..? You are literally a tank...I don't see much in the way of dmg...if you have CDR then yeah it'd be better since you can spam your spells but..this is only like 15% cdr if you take the masteries in the Offense tree.

One part of Vlad's kit that makes him borderline OP is the free stats he gets in the form of his passive. It's that by abusing his passive, aka building lots of AP on him, he gets really tanky by having a lot of hp...w/o building HP whatsoever.

And actually, full AP Vlad can delete even those tanky bruisers you mentioned (well not Nasus since Wither and infinite scaling on Q is OP) with proper use of summoners, items, and abilities. Even though fall AP Vlad is "squishy" you just have too many tools to outplay the enemy and live.

But when it comes down to it...in my mind...I already consider 6 item AP Vlad to be "tanky".