Does Vlad needs Buffs lategame?

vlad is a lategame sustain tank. his damage spike is his early/mid game. if you had a major late game damage push then he would be a jack of all trades which is unbalanced. some tweaks here or there are prob needed but his lategame is remotely fine because with his sustain W and zhonyas he is almost* unkillable

Oxide hit this one on the head, the changes to Vlad in 6.20 were aimed at changing his dynamic in the late game IMO. If he was able to walk around and never die and deal lots of AOE damage it wouldn't necessarily be balanced. Instead, the trade off was sustained decent damage, while being very hard to kill.

Now they have reverted back in 6.20 to more damage but less safety.

It comes full circle.

Any champion that is being balanced due to professional play is probably reason enough to not invest time into making it your one trick pony solo queue

I wont agree that vlad is tank. He is Mage and should build AP. He got sustain but there are far tankier champions than Vlad. Tanks usually got extra defense stats

I remember when i used to score 10 - 20 kills on Vlad. Like Ryze it will take time to adapt but some how Vlad's lategame Damage feels lackluster. I think Vlad should be rewarded with more damage when he stacks AP

He overall feels quite squishy and less damage somehow

Q Base Magic Damage: 75 / 90 / 105 / 120 / 135 (+ 55% AP) Q Empowered Magic Damage: 150 / 180 / 210 / 240 / 270 (+ 110% AP)

Man look how low his base Q damage is. He already got his weaker early game. He should get higher AP Scaling like 80% AP on normal Q and 160% AP on Empowered Q While he might deal less flat damage early game stacking AP should result in higher damage

Not to mention he got problem farming minions.

I think its too tough on Vlad right now