Talk:Vladimir/@comment-4034197-20110622045808/@comment-3497937-20110622053449

Swain can buy RoA (health item) and Swain can manage higher AP than Vlad thanks to him having mana. Swains ult is a walking heal machine, does he even need more survivability? I mean, in a teamfight when he isn't concentrated on, he can deal loads of damage from the sides, his torment. Not to mention, Swain got CC, loads of CC. Vlads CC is W which is also his escape mechanism, not to mention to use it as CC, you got to be close to the enemy. Right under them. You can get rylais though. Blue Buff and items solve mana problems, i agree its late game, then again, Vlads early game is weak too. Swain, Anivia are 2 champs that highly rely on blue buff.

If his game is toxic, then Mordekaiser's game is toxic too. If Vlad has W, Mordekaiser has his passive which allows him to towerdive. What about Fiddlesticks? He's got CC, he can get Blue Buff right at the early stages of the game, he's got silence, fear, heal (way more than Vlad). Still he gets buffed. Okay he is squishy, but getting close to him isn't as easy as it looks with his fear, silence combo. And his ult hurts in teamfights.