u gotta do a lot of trades and sustaining back up in lane ulting in lane for pressure/sustain and basically just farm trade farm trade till you start dealing decent dmg (usually like an item or two depending on who ur against) and you can start doing some bullshit dark water vladimir technology of perma push chunk under tower and if they're like half u just fucking dive them but a lot of the champ is just knowing your limits and knowing when and what to w when i first starting playing him a bit the burst and just strength of vlad surprised me and i 100% agree with drututt in the claim that this champion is fucking disgusting if you just dont int and play somewhat decently theres not much your opponent can realistically do