Talk:Vladimir/@comment-5211662-20150508044048/@comment-26359415-20150510173131

I agree with most of what's been said here. I think people just don't know how to play as or against Vlad. He's really weak in all-ins until level 9. It's just about avoiding as much as possible to trade and don't waste resources on poking unless you're going ham. Rengar, Riven, Hecarim, Darius, Tryndamere, Jax, Irelia, and countless more champs with strong all-ins do fairly well against him. He's also pretty weak against ganks (he only has his W escape, which costs considerable amount of health). Personally, I ALWAYS play aggressive lvl 1 (except against irelia. fug that champ ;-;) and unless I'm playing against champs with cheesy lvl 2 kill potential, in lvl 2 too.

His weaknesses are actually more severe than people think. Top is a long lane and in mid people will always take ignite against you. He just does really good in this tank/scaling meta. He's very similar to Cassiopeia.