Talk:Vladimir/@comment-198.111.166.157-20120406163216/@comment-2124153-20120410005651

You're the "face-palming" know-it-all, so don't get on my nuts about attitude. I'm just here to put you in your place. A main Vladimir player ought be embarassed at the lack of understanding displayed about this champion, unless your Vlad career began last week, in which case break out a pad of paper and start taking notes.

When pool is done, you Tides again and then hit Zhonya's if you need to drop focus. If you don't build Hourglass on Vlad, don't even bother replying to this post. At this point you've had 4 seconds of trololol, and since you started the fight with max Tides stacks (you did, didn't you?), you're dealing amd healing back a ton of damage with your WotA (you DID build a WotA, didn't you?). Hemoplague is now about to go off, which means you get back a couple hundred HP from spellvamp. Neat.

The enemy team has an impossible decision to make at this point: they either focus you down -- which takes longer than usual because you've got more tankiness than the average mage -- and let your teammates rage them down; or they ignore you and go for your team, which leaves you able to blast them repeatedly with Tides and Q for free. Or, I guess there's a third option, the Derp Option, where the enemy team splits focus and only puts one or two guys on you. Naturally, if they do that, you get to blast everyone in the back while drinking their salty tears and healing back up their piddly damage output, unless they put the fucking carry on you.

You win either way, because after you drop Hemo on everyone, blast a couple Tides and trolololol pool to protect your team's position, you can die knowing that you probably just won the fight for your team.

Also, Vayne crits a hell of a lot harder than 700 damage, son. She has 350+ AD with a full build, which doesn't even take into account the bonus from Tumble, the Triforce proc, or the Silver Bolts damage add. She's also attacking almost twice a second, and let's not even get into the math if you have a Nunu/Warwick/Nidalee or Zeke's on your team, because shit gets real in a hurry. Understand that there is NOBODY on your team that is dealing anywhere near the sustained DPS that your hypercarry is, and adding 12% to that is a VERY LARGE NUMBER. This is what you do as Vlad. Eat your heart out, Anivia.

tl;dr, Vlad is ridiculous. Bet you ten bucks against a rusty nail that the Live balance team wishes that they never unleashed this stupid champion on the fields of justice, because his kit is fiddly as hell and hard to strike the correct chord.