Vladimir Nerfs (Rioter feedback would be greatly appreciate)

Spizzle9000·8/31/2016, 7:58:16 PM·4 votes·687 views

Why is Vladimir having significant nerfs when he already has the lowest winrate of top laners according to champion.gg?

They're reducing his base health by 25, which makes his early game harder, especially with these next changes. They're making his E have a four second longer cooldown at rank 1, which will make his early game absolutely abysmal. While the reduction of his health cost for it to 8% may seem like a buff, it's absolutely terrible for him because that means his E does much less damage.

Say a Vladimir has 3000 health because it's mid/late game. Ordinarily, his E would cost 300 damage and do 300 damage on top of the base damage and his AP, but, now it costs 240 health, which is nice, but that also means at full charge, his E is doing 60 less damage (none of this is counting resistances and magic pen).

So, could a Red, or anyone for that matter, please explain to me why Vladimir requires further nerfs when he's already doing quite poorly?

Sources:

http://www.surrenderat20.net/p/current-pbe-balance-changes.html

http://champion.gg/champion/Vladimir/Top

13 Comments

AnCa8/31/2016, 8:15:27 PM1 votes

The same reason Azir got dumpstered. Because Vlad is a problem in pro-play.

AnCa8/31/2016, 11:20:54 PM1 votes

http://www.gamesoflegends.com/tournament/stats.php?id=NA%20LCS%20Summer%20Playoffs%202016 http://www.gamesoflegends.com/champion/picksandbans.php?tournament=NA%20LCS%20Summer%20Playoffs%202016

He has a 80% winrate in the most recent NA LCS 2016 summer playoff. In a total of 25 games played, he was banned 20 games and picked for the rest of the 5 games. What do you mean he has a pathetic winrate? Please don't make stuff up.

lighning238/31/2016, 11:36:18 PM1 votes

vlad is pretty stupid in high elo play where team actually communicate and can form a comp around him allowing him to get a stupid amount of aoe damage off but in solo que there is 0 communication and everyone plays for themselves so vlad doesnt to too hot there unless he starts to snowball.

Calabok9/1/2016, 1:47:23 AM1 votes

RIOT does not base champion balance on shoddy low level player statistics. That would be stupid.