Talk:Vladimir/@comment-24.77.234.168-20120531172705/@comment-177.32.26.167-20120603111907

^ Pretty much.

When i fist started playing the game i couldn't figure why post-big-nerf Vladimir was worth a damn, he was extremely easy to kill, even with his supposed sustain, passive and W, would almost invariably end matches with a negative kill/death score, win or lose, and just overall seemed to not be able to do much at all... I thought, "well, i guess it's one of those chapions that's only good at higher level of play", but as i began to play ranked and rise in elo, seems little changed, he was almost like a less-sucky Evelynn, the only real thing he'd do was drop his ultimate during a team fight. Then as i started to grasp more aspects of the game i realized, Vlad can farm really well and realy fast, he can make a lot of money to the team and though he can't take out turrets very effectively, he can push lanes by killing minion waves really fast; A smart Vlad player should also have a relatively safe laning phase under most circumstances and though he's not very good with burst/fighting/surviving, his ultimate can completely turn the tides of a team fight if you have a good team around him. I still think there's an aspect of "habit" as to why people pick him and try to say he's strong, he fall's short on a number of aspects, it's kind of hard to asign a specific team role for him, he does require quite a bit of skill not to be a drag to his team and he's just not one of those champions anyone's really afraid of facing. Still, he's certainly not bad.