Talk:Vladimir/@comment-5494818-20130625102537/@comment-6000413-20130625124428

Cons:

- he is hard countered by the sheer range of most standard mids,

- his burst is not enough to kill them,

- he has no gapclosing to use W and E on them and he cannot push efficiently.

- he cannot farm safely from under tower (ok, that's valid for other mids, as well.

- his lategame burst is not so outstanding because his AP ratios are quite low

- he has no long-range poke, so you need a top (like jayce), carry (corki) or support (janna) with some poke.

Pros:

- having a lot of health he is hardly burst down by the mid assassins like Kha or Zed

If I play ranked and see a Vlad probably going mid (they already picked a top laner) I just grab fiddle and keep on killing him and sending him to base untill I destroy his tower and go gank the other lanes with my fed ulti.

Any normal mid with a chalice can harass vlad to death and his sustain will never be enough to compensate.

You say he can farm wraith camps, but how can he do that if he's always low on health and he has minions under tower?