Talk:Vladimir/@comment-96.33.118.26-20111110193814/@comment-65.46.62.54-20111113093855

Kad is basically right. The difficulty bar on Vlad is very misleading because he is currently one of the most difficult champions to play. Bad AA animation+has no spells that clear waves until he has a very high amount of AP making him difficult to farm with, long cooldowns on his spells make him a very weak lane all early game, no hard CC, bad AP ratios, etc.

I have never lost my lane to Vlad, ever. I've had Vlads keep up with me in CS somehow, but they were never able to push me out of lane and if I don't get a kill I usually force them to last hit at turret.

Vlad needs to get a Hextech Revolver and boots before he can even think about doing anything to you. Even then, his damage is quite supbar. If you think of him as the AP equivalent of a bruiser and not a burst AP carry he is better, but if that's the case I'd rather have Ryze on my team than Vlad.