Talk:Vladimir/@comment-4929329-20120517000707/@comment-121.209.35.202-20120527061706

Whoever said vald is not extremely weak early obviously has NEVER played vlad.

-Cooldown on Q is soo long and doesnt even give u that much susatin (u basically have zero damage output between the cooldown of Q)

-probably the worse attack annimations in the game making last hitting harder than with other champs

-pool costs an absolute fortune of life early and takes u forever to get back

You basically lose to everyone early. Just play passivly early, not push the lane focus on faming with auto attack and Q. After lev 5 or so when the cooldown and Q comes down (and after first shop) u can start getting agressive and grinding them down with Q and zoning etc

If u get through the early part of the game unscathed u can start to get strong in ur lane very quickly. Or if u get help from ur jungler and get an early kill or first blood you can snowball out of control ridiculously (well pretty much all top lane champs snowball pretty hard).