Talk:Vladimir/@comment-165.82.28.137-20110123061408

If you wanna fix him, make him more consistent. Early laning is horrible when playing as a vlad because of the extremely long cd on your only reliable spell. The only reason hes not curb stomped in that phase is because people are too scared to just come at him and not back off when he does q, against an opponent that knows vlad you can deny him everything until the creeps reach his tower and then some. However going from lvl 8-9 he gains the biggest change in 1 lvl out of arguably any champ in the game and proceeds to steamroll most enemies in teamfights with his aoe. What I think should be done to balance him is to lengthen the cd on trans and perhaps e(be honest, the vast majority of people who hate him cite his q) on the later ranks of those spells and reduce the cooldown for the earlier ranks (I play as vlad and can tell you that fighting annie with just my 12 second cd trans is painful). most of the nerfs thus far have focused on his early game. The 2 significant ones i remember seeing were on pool (not being able to juke turret shots) and hemoplague (a flat dmg reduction on all ranks of the spell). Translation: the nerfs went to his tower diving (which matters far more early game) and ability to pick up kills at low lvls. The problem of him being a death machine late game remains and they weaken what is alredy weak. Buff his early game to shut vlad players like me up, and nerf his late game to shut everyone else up and i think wed all be happy