Talk:Vladimir/@comment-25252206-20150621090334/@comment-9533487-20150710125700

@KuraiAssassin

One of the most important things vs Vlad is controlling the amount of time spent trading, and another is simply crowd control. The weird thing is you mentioned having a terrible time vs him as Syndra whereas, so far as I've been able to tell, Syndra does very well vs him overall until he gets multiple items (including Zhonya's).

If it's Syndra, you can trade REALLY hard with him without him being able to trade back more than a Q, if even that; just look for moments where you're able to Q W E Q auto, then move away and farm passively for your E cooldown to come back up. If you can't land an initial Q, that's fine too, just make sure to land the W so you can follow up with one. He can't pool while stunned either, so provided you have ignite up you should be able to poke him down a tiny bit and then combo him down.

If he follows you too far for his harass, your jungler might be able to punish him for that. Since he stands still during his Q, E, and autos, you can prevent him winning trades by CC'ing him on most champions when he forces a trade by being aggressive and walking up among your minions. If he chooses to fight back after that, he will probably take decent amounts of minion aggro and you shouldn't take much from his minions since he walked away from them, so the best option for him is lose the trade and walk away after the crowd control wears off.

Many champions simply have more flexibility in their kit than Vlad anyway, so just use that ruthlessly against him and you can definitely win.