Talk:Vladimir/@comment-26251295-20150630063137/@comment-5955640-20150630070831

Balance? Wouldn't that kill Vladimir?

His ult requires that you deal as much damage as possible and tides of blood is the main way to do that as it's the only ability that gives you higher returns for spamming it (assuming that you can risk losing more health along with it). Same thing with Q. Less damage means a weaker ult.

The problem is that he has a inexpensive kit based entirely around amplifying his damage. You want to Q all the time so you never run out of health, you want to E all the time so everything you do does more damage and you get more health on Q and from Spell Vamp in general, and then the R is only really effective if the spend the whole duration spamming Q and E as much as possible.

Then there's the passive. Free AP for health, Free health for AP. Free health for AP so you have a huge incentive to have over 3000 health and with an additional incentive to always buy spell vamp you never run out of health or stay low for long. AP for health just makes ratcheting up the health bar even easier. Free damage and sustain.

Late game he only has a CD on his W and R. His Q and E is battering you all game long and that's why you want those nerfed but why bench a champion when you can fix them?

Redesign Vladimir's theme as a bloodmancer and come up with more. Interesting ways to deal with blood (blood clots, stripping the oxygen out of blood, Thin blood, That blood bending that was shown on Avatar the Last Airbender,  etc) Lots of stuff happens to blood and I reckon a blood mancer can have just about all of those things happen on command.

I would like to see him be the second champ in this game to have a blood bar along with Aatrox and come up with ways to keep some of the amplifiers. Maybe make it to where his sustain or his damage is dependant on the blood bar. You can control and work around his phase of using blood to survive and using blood to kill rather than figure out a way to gimp his sustain and damage simuntanously.

Ya know make it more than. "He takes your blood and hits you with blood. He takes your blood and hits you with blood."