I've never really played Vladimir that much, and I don't claim to be an expert on balance, but I know before his most recent nerf his win rate really wasn't that great. He was sitting somewhere between 47-48% win rate in plat+ games, and had moderate success in LCS. So in my mind, that seems like a pretty healthy champ. So I'm curious, what is it about Vladimir that you felt was out of line?
moonborn1 votesthey have a comment on patch notes about him.
but anyway - the thing is, vlad remake made him too powerful. he was building tanky(spirit visage etc) and still doing a lot of damage. there was nothing u could do to him. if u poked him he would poke u back and regain all health.
even now, he is still pretty often banned. even though he is quite okay.
but he is just super annoying to play against. people ban some champions not because they have extremely high win rate, but because they are very dumb to play against and just have stupid unfun design to begin with. for example : 
( no mage wants to rush 
), or 
which is just too unfun. so vlad falls somewhere there.
