he bullies you out of lane from the very start, he can dive when he wants, infinite sustain while being manaless. and it only gets worse after laning phase. tell me how to deal with this champ that has disgusted me for over 5 years please
this champ disgusts me more then twitch
I played against him as Yorick (I think 2 days ago now) and had a pretty good time. As others have said, just avoided him when he had empowered Q. To a certain extent, it's okay to let him control the lane, because he'll start to fall off if you just cs when you can and don't die to him early. Let him push in and call your jungler. Same story as with most lane bullies, really.
Stand in your minions when trading with him. He has low damage outside of empowered Q so he generally loses when he regularly trades. Plus it makes it harder for him to E you.
Only trade when he Q's without empowered strike. When it's empowered he gains significantly more damage and his healing is increased substantially if he uses it on a champion instead of a player.
Then late-game if he flanks you're kinda fucked but your team should be watching for that anyways.
Some things you can do to make Vlad's life hell:
Question from a similarly burdened player: what visual queues should I be looking for when looking out for his empowered Q? I honestly don't know a whole lot about Vlad.
If you're playing a tank you can always try buying a spectre's cowl. That usually helps me against magic damage harass.
