Talk:Vladimir/@comment-1920550-20150108062523/@comment-15244341-20150117140405

Uuuuh... Akali farms/pokes with her Q and spellvamps any damage you deal to her. Mundo farms safely from wherever he wants with cleavers. Those skills have a 6 and 4 second cooldown respectively. Meanwhile, Vlad has to go to a really bloody (pun intended) short range to throw a Q with a 10 second cooldown to poke/farm.

So no, Vlad has a worse lane fase than either of those. Heck, Akali actually has a bad laning fase against ranged, but she can deal a truckload of damage at level 2 with Q-Wait-Auto-Q-E against melee champions. And invis>pool early agme, since it doesn't take a ton of your HP to use it and movespeed plus invis before anyone has anti-invisibility tech (pinks, upgraded oracle's) is pretty damn strong.

That said, I completely agree. Vlad has but a few buttons to press, but positioning in teamfights and living through the early game is far harder than one would think. He does take some dedication to play, specially when it comes to learning harder matchups.