These Vladimir buffs, will toplane Vlad fall back into meta

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Once you scroll down past the creepy tree and those awesome star guardian skins you will come across some pretty decent Vladimir buffs.

The heal from q and empowered q is up

Ap ratio of e is up and it's hp cost is down

I understand why they want to buff him, his win rate dropped pretty hard but isn't this solely because he was played almost exclusively as a midlaner mage? Vlad made the transition to toplane long ago simply because his low range and bad early game wouldn't allow him to compete with the lane dominant mages.

Despite not seeing Vlad in the toplane he is like all ranged in the lane a bully, unlike most of them though he is hard to kill thanks to building fairly tanky, his sustain and his pool.

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Eedat1 votes

I don't know who told you Vlad counters melees but they're wrong. There's a ton of melee matchups that crush Vlad. You just don't know how to play against him it seems. Vlad is weak to champs that can repeatedly force trades with him. Vlad's sustain is very low early game and it's easy as hell to bully him out of lane. Most people just sit there and let him harass and sustain for free which is a huge mistake.

For example, I main Wukong and even at the height of Vlad's power he was the easiest lane matchup i could play against. At no point in the game could Vlad ever out trade me out duel me. If Vlad was mid I would beg my mid laner lane swap with me.

Wukong is just one example but there are a ton of others. Pretty much any melee with a gap closer dumps on Vlad

ShirukuSama1 votes

mehh... its not a real buff. They want to eliminate Spirite Visage build on Vlad, so they buffed his healing, and decreased his health cost on his E -> More health for AP vlad.

E will be more blockable by minions, so they nerfed his waveclear and buff the counterplay against him,. meanwhile its damage will be the same.

Simple Q will heal a little bit more, but enpowered Q heal is nerfed on minions.

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