Vladimir

Hitagi Best Girl·Jan 27, 2017·1 votes·593 views

With the nerfs on protobelt and rylais, would a worlds-patch Vladimir be a possibility to go back to, or would he still be seen as "too oppressive"?

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B00B00Jan 27, 20172 votes

i think he needs a rework, a proper one. he's either too strong (oppressive) and in the right hands near unkillable or he's weak/below average.

keep his design core, just.....a proper update i feel is really needed for him

DatCrazyOokamiiMay 6, 20171 votes

I think he's fine, they improved farming for those who can't last hit, they agree he's a bit difficult but as for balancing, he's really balanced to me, he gets murdered early game by half the champion pool in both top and mid, but his actual role is survival anyway not dominion, so he denies kills, gets his build and catches up with his team mates. Unless you're eating his 3rd Q+E (sorry for everyone I Flash E>R>Q>E on, please don't hate on me, his range is just too short and you guys don't walk up to me DX). but anyway, unless you're just standing there in lane taking all of that, you should be fine, his range is pretty small compared to many other skill ranges, and that's just him, he's the embodiment of a walking AOE so it makes sense he can't poke from far like Xerath/Varus so that's his strength and weakness.

He can be dangerous to go near without locking him down with some cc and he can also be hard to use when you have to get in range to do anything. It's not oppressive, it's trying to figure out what to do when, like any other champion. Yes his heals are annoying especially when it's mostly unique to him. I mean, that would be like complaining about Fizz poles and Camille ults cries in corner I mean ahem. Every champion has something we don't like. What we should do is play around it and use your own champion's tools to win.

Unless you're adc and you're about the constant damage balanced by constant vulnerability which, is kinda sad we'd complain about an aa instead of focusing the adc, but their team has a Lulu, and she'll get mad if you touch her squishies. TLDR; everyone is op, however situational, and they did a good job with Vlad by losing spell vamp and making us BUILD HIM AS A MAGE OMG HE"S A MAGE TANK NOT A TANK MAGE HUGE DIFFERENCE. I mean, actual tanks have more resistance and cc, Vlad's like a Fighter but he's magic damage and just has high health like cough Garen, who, by the way, can afford to build a crap ton of resistance because his damage is free but then we show up with Morello on Vlad and Ryliandry's and mess him up :) so even that has counters

Blue VanityJun 13, 20171 votes

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DatCrazyOokamiiJun 13, 20171 votes

not exactly but he is amazing at kill denying (sometimes) and I guess since he's all about that late game he'll have to play a bit safe if there's someone who can wreck him early. I really wanted to say he's balanced (aka not op) because he has a good amount of strengths and weaknesses, like the other champions (at least most of them)

He has nice poke against squishies with high damage but skilled people would walk away and make it a waste. Or do Riven/Xin Zhao/Irelia things. those things are potent, but they still need to snowball to be relevant later. Vlad can go 0-7-4(assists from jungler and ks?) but he'll be relevant at every point beyond 10-15 minutes. He can Ult a teamfight and try to stay alive and giving his WHOLE TEAM INCLUDING MINIONS AND TURRETS EVEN IGNITE a significant damage boost and maybe pick up a kill or three when those 4 seconds end. He's kinda like a tank with the relevance thing, tanks have cc that will always be of some use in a somewhat similar way so you make a point with struggle early to win later.

Anyway, it's not the champ, it's how you play :)