Talk:Vladimir/@comment-70.249.147.32-20110217083750/@comment-3358335-20110217192854

Ok, so now you have changed the scenario. You've given the other player the choice of attacking Vlad or Last hitting minions and made it so that vlad is forced to last hit minions. So they can harass a character that can lifesteal (The amount is irrelevant at this point: some > none) OR they can attack minions. It would seem that Vlad has the same choices. He can harass with his auto attack, and life steal to stay out there. Fall back if he gets harassed too much, heal up, rinse and repeat.

They both need to farm. All low level characters have mana/cool down issues. Again, it comes down to lifesteal vs non-life steal and staying power in a solo lane. If Vlad is able to get a hit every 12 seconds over the couse of the first 3 minutes, he is is going to be sending his opponent back to the well to heal. He wins the lane. If he gets harrassed, then he falls back outside of range and just does life steal and isn't forced to go back to the well. Since we seem to be in agreement that this is a mid lane scenario, it is well known that staying power in the mid lane wins the lane.

Add the fact that he starts with more health then most popular mid lane characters and his auto attack is higher than quite a few of them (Viegar and Ashe to name two) I completely miss the point you are trying to make.