Talk:Vladimir/@comment-1920550-20150108062523/@comment-5211662-20150111054316

I don't think so. Vladimir has a lot of advantages over Ryze. The first one is that Vladimir has way better sustain. Ryze has NO sustain without his ultimate. Even then, it is rather mediocre when compared to Vladimir's sustain overall.

The second: Ryze is mana dependent. Yes, mana will not be a problem once he stacks his Tear and has Rod of Ages. However, until Ryze has Tear during early game, he has to be extremely careful about spamming his spells. Even after purchasing Tear, Ryze can still become oom by spamming his spells a lot. Vladimir, on other hand, does not have to worry about this. He only has to care about losing too much health by spamming E during early game. However, once he has spellvamp, this is not an issue at all.

The third: Vladimir is way more slippery than Ryze. This compensates the fact that Ryze is tankier, since Vladimir may be squishier than Ryze, but it is WAY harder to hit a Vladimir that has Zhonya and an ability that leaves him untargetable.

The fourth: Vladimir may have a lower base AD, but his auto-attacking animation is better than that of Ryze. Movement speed on Ryze is just because he almost always uses movspeed quintessences (and they are good on Vlad too). Ryze has better base health, but due to Vladimir's passive, he ends up having more health than Ryze.

The fifth: Vladimir has as much harass as Ryze.

Also, Vladimir has as much teamfighting presence as Ryze, if not more. His ult is like an AoE Deathfire Grasp that works for your entire team and also works for physical damage. Also, as I said above, Vladimir is very slippery. Don't think that focusing him will be easy.