New Vladimir Feels horrendous to play
I'm a long time fan of Vlad his kit was always fun and appealing to me, but oh boy after one game of playing Vlads new E and Q. I have to say those abilities feels terrible.
Vlads New Q if you didn't know, now does quite a bit less damage, unless its on the third hit, in which it does 100% damage and heals you for more. I was like great, better poke and sustain in lane. Wrong. The third Q only lasts for 2.5 seconds and the enemy can see the bar charging up for it (Which effectively tells them the Cooldown of your Q), and just walk away for 2.5 seconds and come back. Effectively making the buff useless, as its to predictable and easy to out play.
Now lets move on to Vlads new it which again feels terrible. It needs to be charged to do any meaninful damage, that charge takes a flat 10% maximum health. Its short range, it gets blocked by any unit, and again is REALLY FREAKING predictable, the enemy can justt stand behind minons in lane and well now you don't have an E in lane. (Also in team fights the tank can just black the E from basically hitting anyone if he's on top of you)
Vlads kit does more damage, but not really, yes his lane was a bit bad before, but you could easily wait out the few mins to get revolver and easily manage lane after that. As old Vlad, did slightly less damage, healed for about twice the amount he does now, his E was actually RELIABLE, it gave him more sustain, also did about the same amount of damage once you hit 4 stacks, (Which is really easy to keep up).
New Vladimir is just feels flat out worse then old Vlad, I see no reason to play him anymore as anyone like Ryze Or Rumble over shadow him a lot. (Also new items benefit them a lot more then Vlad)
The only ways he's going to be decent is if he gets massive buffs or you revert the changes and go back to the drawing board, because I'm honestly not liking these changes and really ruined one of my favorite champs (Along with Viktor you fucked him up too)
TL'DR: Vlads Q and E are now shit, feel terrible to play and overall Vlad is just worse. Heals less and does meh damage since his Q and E are too predictable.
