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Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-13 16:20:06
April 13 2012 16:18 GMT
#5741
Doesn't Swain lack range against Vlad's Q? Or do you mean he's supposed to get an advantage/zone Vlad by abusing the early levels when Vlad can't get every cs with Q?

Edit @underneath: no, she becomes actively untargetable, but whatever is damaging her (DoTs) or damages where she stands without having to target her still damages her. I have no idea if it evades Karthus' ult tho, I guess it does if the ult targets each individual champ?
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
LaNague
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany9118 Posts
April 13 2012 16:18 GMT
#5742
i thought fiora is removed from the map during ult
wei2coolman
Profile Joined November 2010
United States60033 Posts
April 13 2012 16:18 GMT
#5743
How does swains kit counter vlad?
liftlift > tsm
TwoToneTerran
Profile Joined March 2009
United States8841 Posts
April 13 2012 16:19 GMT
#5744
On April 14 2012 01:18 Alaric wrote:
Doesn't Swain lack range against Vlad's Q? Or do you mean he's supposed to get an advantage/zone Vlad by abusing the early levels when Vlad can't get every cs with Q?


Vlad's q has equal or less range than all of Swain's abilities.
Remember Violet.
Glaceau
Profile Joined February 2012
Wales333 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-13 16:23:23
April 13 2012 16:21 GMT
#5745
swain looks good vs vlad on paper but the reality is unless you are a superbly better player, vlad is going to be content to sit back and farm and he's ions ahead of swain in terms of scaling and teamfighting power. vlad is still a little bit on the strong side now, if you don't shut him down completely he can easily turn games with just 1 other AOE ult on his team.

Another thing is that as you get higher elo, champs like leblanc and champs where you need to be super aggressive ( like this swain vs vlad matchup) junglers will know this and camp your lane.

edit - speaking of fiona, she shits all over vlad. one of my favorite go to counters atm.
Cmon, swing it
LaNague
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany9118 Posts
April 13 2012 16:21 GMT
#5746
On April 14 2012 01:18 wei2coolman wrote:
How does swains kit counter vlad?


swain can heal, too, swains abilities dont care for his pool, which means he can outtrade vlad, swain also has hard CC
Lylat
Profile Joined August 2009
France8575 Posts
April 13 2012 16:22 GMT
#5747
Alex ich is such an impressive farmer, 360 cs & 6/0/2 at 29min oO
TwoToneTerran
Profile Joined March 2009
United States8841 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-13 16:24:59
April 13 2012 16:22 GMT
#5748
On April 14 2012 01:18 wei2coolman wrote:
How does swains kit counter vlad?


Vlad cannot win a direct confrontation with Swain, Swain forces Vlad to blows tons of HP pooling his snare, Vlad can't trade Q harass with Swain because Swain's q damages vlad overtime so, if they trade Qs, Vlad will actually lose health from casting Q and swain's damage will tick off after the healing effect of Q happens, which is also how bird laser works (damage overtime negating burst healing). Swain can out sustain Vlad post 6.

Basically, sustained over time damage undermines burst healing and Swain is 100% sustained overtime damage.
Remember Violet.
barbsq
Profile Joined November 2009
United States5348 Posts
April 13 2012 16:22 GMT
#5749
On April 14 2012 01:13 NoobieOne wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 14 2012 00:55 Mogwai wrote:
On April 14 2012 00:55 wei2coolman wrote:
how does rumble do against vlad?

I think Vlad wins it. Ramble takes too long to ramp up and sucks vs. sustained long range damage.


Although one gank can throw the lane either way. Most vlads push the lane to your tower pretty fast and rumble actually can chase the pool at early levels (I save my E for after he goes out of pool) I've gotten multiple kills with early ganks while I'm rumble vs vlad and if you can get a small advantage (and a revolver) you should be able to start outtrading whenever vlad comes in to cs. He can't spellvamp back up if you engage on him every time he tries to CS.


pretty sure rumble tends to push harder than vlad in the early levels, tho granted i havn't played much as or against rumble, but intuitively (given the nature of flamethrower) it seems right to me.

re: ezreal, in my experience, he does much better vs assassins than most other ranged AD, just by virtue of being a slippery bastard. He and anivia are also the only ranged champions in the game with a built in attack speed reduction debuff (40% for 5 seconds max level ez w), which can be a big deal vs champs that rely heavily on autoattacks. Honestly, I actually think that value alone is massively underrated by the community at large, although admittedly it has a somewhat prohibitive mana cost.
Look at this guy, constantly diluting himself! (╮°-°)╮┳━┳ ( ╯°□°)╯ ┻━┻
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-13 16:26:43
April 13 2012 16:23 GMT
#5750
True, Vlad only has 600 range on Q (I thought it was much more, but perhaps is it only because it has a good animation so he easily removes himself afterwards).

On April 14 2012 01:18 wei2coolman wrote:
How does swains kit counter vlad?


Swain's Q and E deal damage to Vlad through the pool, he has health himself himself and wins trades early on thanks to E's damage amplication. Vlad can't trade with him unless Swain has spells on cd, and that won't happen much until his Q has a lower cooldown. He can't really outsustain Swain's mana either, as early on he doesn't have spellvamp, and Swain's passive ease mana management a lot, especially pre-6.

On April 14 2012 01:22 TwoToneTerran wrote:
Vlad can't trade Q harass with Swain because Swain's q damages vlad overtime so, if they trade Qs, Vlad will actually lose health from casting Q and swain's damage will tick off after the healing effect of Q happens


Can't Vlad just break the tether by moving out of range tho? Swain's problem against ranged champs...
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
barbsq
Profile Joined November 2009
United States5348 Posts
April 13 2012 16:28 GMT
#5751
imo swain's e is a hell of a lot scarier than his q
Look at this guy, constantly diluting himself! (╮°-°)╮┳━┳ ( ╯°□°)╯ ┻━┻
Glaceau
Profile Joined February 2012
Wales333 Posts
April 13 2012 16:28 GMT
#5752
also the fiddle beating vlad thing is an old myth now that isnt true anymore. Between the fiddle nerfs and the vlad changes, vlad actually beats him now from my experience, and badly too. you can 100-0 him as soon as you hit level 6 and its impossible to get ulted by him at mid lane. guess it might work top though
Cmon, swing it
TwoToneTerran
Profile Joined March 2009
United States8841 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-13 16:31:02
April 13 2012 16:29 GMT
#5753
Not if Vlad tries to do anything with his E. At best, Vlad is farming creeps, scared, with his q while Swain pokes him and zones him. It's easy to say he just "walks away" but walking away, while slowed, with his Q on him as he threaten to snare you is really difficult and messes up Vlad's entire method of laning. When your best hope is to turn it into a farm lane or get lots of early jungle pressure, then you're getting countered.


On April 14 2012 01:28 barbsq wrote:
imo swain's e is a hell of a lot scarier than his q


Funny thing, in all this chatter I mixed up Swain's e and q. They both do the same crap that messes with Vlad, though, and in tandem they really fuck him up.
Remember Violet.
Lylat
Profile Joined August 2009
France8575 Posts
April 13 2012 16:31 GMT
#5754
End game stats : 38min 8/0/3 466 cs = Alex OP
RoyGBiv_13
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States1275 Posts
April 13 2012 16:33 GMT
#5755
On April 14 2012 00:55 Mogwai wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 14 2012 00:55 wei2coolman wrote:
how does rumble do against vlad?

I think Vlad wins it. Ramble takes too long to ramp up and sucks vs. sustained long range damage.


Rumble wins as vlad's low damage but constant nukes are mitigated severely by the shield. Flamethrower does significant damage even with the sustain, and vlads escape ability just causes him to take even more damage.

that being said, Rumble has to be engaged on vlad the entire time to be effective against him, and vlad can kite and farm in the mean time. Rumble is also out of position at this point and easily gankable.

I believe I have seen a pro vlad vs ramble in mid and both lost the lane as they both were low all the time and had to retreat to avoid jangle ganks
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
Seuss
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States10536 Posts
April 13 2012 16:33 GMT
#5756
On April 14 2012 01:14 cLutZ wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 14 2012 01:10 Seuss wrote:
Ez is close enough to the other AD carries that a full remake is probably unnecessary. A few tweaks perhaps, but no more than that.


Suggestions?

I'd look at W, and Passive, but that is just me.


I think his passive is fine actually. I generally like the idea of allowing his W's attack speed buff to affect himself. The notable problem there is it's fairly trivial to reach 100% uptime on W if you have a little CDR and can land Qs.

Some small numbers tweaks might be all that's required though, rather than any mechanical changes.
"I am not able to carry all this people alone, for they are too heavy for me." -Moses (Numbers 11:14)
nojok
Profile Joined May 2011
France15846 Posts
April 13 2012 16:33 GMT
#5757
Hey I just thought about something, if spellcasters could have a faster cast animation item so they can use they're autos for exemple lich bane proc it would be nice no?
"Back then teams that won were credited, now it's called throw. I think it's sad." - Kuroky - Flap Flap Wings!
cLutZ
Profile Joined November 2010
United States19574 Posts
April 13 2012 16:38 GMT
#5758
On April 14 2012 01:22 barbsq wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 14 2012 01:13 NoobieOne wrote:
On April 14 2012 00:55 Mogwai wrote:
On April 14 2012 00:55 wei2coolman wrote:
how does rumble do against vlad?

I think Vlad wins it. Ramble takes too long to ramp up and sucks vs. sustained long range damage.


Although one gank can throw the lane either way. Most vlads push the lane to your tower pretty fast and rumble actually can chase the pool at early levels (I save my E for after he goes out of pool) I've gotten multiple kills with early ganks while I'm rumble vs vlad and if you can get a small advantage (and a revolver) you should be able to start outtrading whenever vlad comes in to cs. He can't spellvamp back up if you engage on him every time he tries to CS.


pretty sure rumble tends to push harder than vlad in the early levels, tho granted i havn't played much as or against rumble, but intuitively (given the nature of flamethrower) it seems right to me.

re: ezreal, in my experience, he does much better vs assassins than most other ranged AD, just by virtue of being a slippery bastard. He and anivia are also the only ranged champions in the game with a built in attack speed reduction debuff (40% for 5 seconds max level ez w), which can be a big deal vs champs that rely heavily on autoattacks. Honestly, I actually think that value alone is massively underrated by the community at large, although admittedly it has a somewhat prohibitive mana cost.


Perhaps it is underrated, but all I ever see it used as is on teammates to stack Rising Spell Force (and I suppose to get them a buff). Whenever Ez is picked as AD carry I get really excited (because he is super fun to watch, kinda like nidalee) and then let down as he gets outtraded early game (even if he doesn't die) and outscaled late game.

The only time I saw him look really good in a pro game was as solotop against a melle champ (Shen I think).
Freeeeeeedom
iCanada
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada10660 Posts
April 13 2012 16:38 GMT
#5759
LOL. Support Renekton is like the best thing in the world.

I just played a game with one of those douchy "let me play X or I'll feed!" kids, except he was last pick and apparently could only top... however he didn't actually say this. So I picked Renekton fourth, and when it passed to him he just insta locked Olaf. Told us he was going top or he would just feed their AD like 10 kills.

Alright, whatever... I went bottom with Renekton. I knew Renekton was strong early game, but against squishy AD champs his damage is almost ridiculous. Level 1 I FlashIgnite->Auto->W->Auto'd and pretty well 1 shot Sivir along with my Grave's Q and likely an Auto attack or two. From there on out, every single time Sivir or Soraka got within range of my E, they were just flat out dead.

Finished the game 16-3-7. New meta found...
gtrsrs
Profile Joined June 2010
United States9109 Posts
April 13 2012 16:41 GMT
#5760
On April 14 2012 01:28 Glaceau wrote:
also the fiddle beating vlad thing is an old myth now that isnt true anymore. Between the fiddle nerfs and the vlad changes, vlad actually beats him now from my experience, and badly too. you can 100-0 him as soon as you hit level 6 and its impossible to get ulted by him at mid lane. guess it might work top though


no, there's no way
fiddle has 2 interrupts to vlad's combo, and even if vlad manages to get ult + ignite before getting feared/silenced, fiddle can use this downtime to wait out the ignite before draining or just walk away. also if fiddle drains as you approach for your combo, you're forced to either let him continue to drain you in anticipation that you'll get the kill anyway, or back off to stop the drain. if you say "no turning back" and do it, but DON'T kill him, he can ult you as you run away. if you do back off, you're down an ult and a summoner and he only had to use 1 spammable spell to prevent the kill
i play ... hearthstone =\^.^/= Winterfox
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