Talk:Vladimir/@comment-94.172.19.195-20111031022352/@comment-217.66.152.64-20111102055242

I see Morello's point there. What can cause Vlad to lose a lane? Only one thing: a fundamental mistake. By that I mean underknowing an enemy Vlad is laning against. I often experienced that when laning against him as Swain: Vlad went in to kill me, received torment+ignite+laserbird, activated pool, and then Swain's ult and Nevermove finished it. That is a fundemental mistake, underknowing or miscalculating enemy damage/survavability (often happens with Swain as he is rare and quite a lot people don't know him well). A correct decision in my case would be to try run me (Swain) dry of mana, and then press on. If Vlad knows his enemy perfectly and can calculate the fight outcome correctly, there is little mistakes he can do. No skillshots. No mana/energy management. Little space to apply your skill as a player, except dodging enemy skillshots maybe.

I think that can be fixed by making his Q a line skillshot, somewhat buffing its damage/reducing cost to compensate for that, and making it less effective against minions.