@Riot, Current state of Vladimir, what he is, what he should be

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Vladimir is one of those children that are precious to me due to how unique they are and how impossible it is to find a similar gameplay in other characters/games

Recently he received major buffs and it made me willing to play him in ranked then in normals,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyUktDRD-Fc and it was a succes, i saw today a lot of threads about vladimir. I also had a high elo vladimir main telling me that vladimir was killed by riot but balance wise he's fine at the moment Vladimir has 47% win rate midlane, and 48% win rate toplane and it's GOOD for vlad. Going MR penetration quints+red, then building AP makes him a monster. IMO shouldn't be built anymore, vladimir can't afford to build pure tank items, Once you build AP+CDR on him you will see a very noticeable difference

but This thread is not only about how he is right now, but also about what should happen to make him perfect First as an other vladimir main told me, he has some annoying bugs going on. I didn't realise it but his W makes him unable to do anything for a few time while his enemies can hit him and destroy him during this time. (maybe it's intended=?)

Vladimir is a hypercarry. His damages in late game stand with marksmen and other late game champions, while in early game he is the trashest champion in the game. No other early game can compete with that His damage is not only low, but he is slow and squishy his healing has been nerfed a lot against minions his E cd is now 13 sec at rank 1. His only way to survive is his W which has 28 sec cd and costs 20% of his HP, and which is going to be nerfed soon

Thing with vladimir is that he needs to have this early game to be balanced, but this makes him quite frustrating to play because allies expect you to be strong in early game for no reasons and it leads them to not play safe against midlane roaming, start fights before you get items and levels ect.. But it's also frustrating because vladimir becomes unplayable against some toplaner/midlaner, literally the majority of them can kill vlad easily without vlad to be able to do anything

how can this be fixed? Making vladimir able to go botlane [zombie-brand-clap]

Seriously no one thought about this? Vladimir is like a marksmen in disguise. he is ranged, He has a very strong DPS that can match their DPS, he can't lane alone he just can't, Imagine laning against ? it's exactly the same with vlad But why can't vladimir go botlane? he's too much XP reliant Unlike marksmen. he can't do anything before both his Q and his E are at rank 5 and it's because of his high cooldown on E before investing a lot of points in it "but rubick, you want to give him an xp passive?" no, i just want him to instead waiting 13 lvls+1 major items +boots , wait like 8 or 9 lvls+2 major items +boots

How? make him maxing E instead of Q first

make Q cd 3 seconds at all ranks reduce Q damage+heal from rank 1 to 4

Thus vladimir can lane in peace with a support without fearing to lack of lvls I don't understand why was turned to botlane, makes much more sense and way easier to do instead of giving him xp passive+drake passive+so much power into spells

but that's just my 4cents