Talk:Vladimir/@comment-198.111.166.157-20120406163216/@comment-2124153-20120410153629

It is not my idea, it is literally what Dyrus does when he plays Vladimir for his team. If you watch the extended finals, you can see where his team basically aces CLG on the Baron just due to this combo. Dyrus dies, but does a pile of damage before he goes down, and frees up Chaox to go apeshit with Ashe in the meantime, which is devastating.

This is textbook Vlad, and the reason why he remains a strong pick even after all of the nerfs (true story, Hemo used to be an 18% damage amp back in 2010). Vlad is not as bursty as some other mages, but he has good repeatable DPS, and does so much for team damage that cooperation is rewarded.

Now if your team is full of idiots that can't capitalize on an opening, that greatly diminishes the power of the technique, but that's neither here nor there. Bad teams are bad, film at 11.