Talk:Vladimir/@comment-5208038-20120618141435/@comment-4659726-20120618143113


 * looks at his background for refreshment* Well his E now is stronger than it was before. But also before he had really good Hp > Ap scaling and AP > hp scaling on his passive. As well as high % damage amp on ult (up to 18%) and 650 range on his Q. This allowed him to pubstomp pretty hard.

Also, 250 base damage on Q, 3 second cooldown with higher healing allowed him to pretty much Q endlessly even if his range was nerfed pretty early on. His Q made him just really annoying and difficult to deal with in lane. Lots of healing, lots of repetition for it and comparable base damage to other mages. After forum QQ with relation to this he was nerfed pretty hard by increased cooldown on Q (25% increase at max rank +1 sec) and 20 base damage taken from rank 5 and put into rank 1. So it scaled from 70-250 to the new 90-230. This was a hard nerf because his AP ratios were never really high and repetition of moves made up for it.

Now? His early game is extremely weak and a smart player can easily deal with him. his cooldowns are high early game evening out at 4 sec at max rank which is decent. However Vlad snowballs well and can actually use E without killing themselves, keep this in mind because a fed vlad is scary. His ranges being short for Q prevent him from being a decent pick against good Mids at the moment because he will get zoned very hard by champs like Ryze, Cass, and so on. Lots of vlad players who have stuck with him simply know a lot about how to play him and thats why in part why vlad is still viable. The people who play him know how to play him well and make up for his downsides. Good champ, deceptively difficult to play.