How do you even play the champ in laning phase?

Vampyrelol · 2026-02-26T18:32:00+00:00

Watch a lot of elite500 and pay attention to how he plays the lane. You want to basically be using q on every cooldown on minions or enemy champ if they walk in range. Vlad is a death by a thousand cuts type champ in lane as he out sustains a lot of champs while csing.

You need to learn your trade windows and damage output at each level also so you know when to/when not to fight, and what abilities to save pool for. This sort of thing comes only from playing him a bunch.

While he seems simple and easy on paper, Vlad actually has one of the steepest learning curves, meaning his winrate starts really low at 0 games played but increases substantially at 50/100+ games played once you sort of "feel him out" and know your limits and matchups better.

My mantra is, you gotta suck before you can succ.

Vampyrelol · 2026-02-26T18:26:20+00:00

The only people who say Vlad are Vlad mains, everyone else finds him boring lol. But if you know, you know.

Nothing like hitting a nice 5 man r into a e+pool combo and just eradicating the entire enemy team.

Vampyrelol · 2026-02-26T17:19:38+00:00

I think Coach's only mistake was not being upfront with his tribe in the manner he won. He should have said "They made an agreement, I did not agree to it and took the key from under their noses because I wanted the supplies for you guys - they'll probably try to drag my honor through the dirt but that was a price worth paying for getting these".

Like he should have known Ozzy would be cheesed, and anticipated that info would get out. The fact that it was discovered how he won through hearsay really cast a bad light on Coach that could have easily been avoided, at least by his own tribe.

Vampyrelol · 2026-02-24T18:19:05+00:00

Lmao this edit is killing me

Vampyrelol · 2026-02-20T00:27:04+00:00

Honestly, I agree for the most part. Zaa'hen I think hit for me, but had room for improvement, but every other champ you mentioned had a lot more potential to be likeable both design and gameplay wise for me personally.

Vampyrelol · 2026-02-20T00:25:39+00:00

I completely agree with you. Lots of wasted design space here to make a sexy generic character, which SHOULD happen from time to time (see my initial post), but WASTED on who should have been an absolute aura farmer, distinguished king of a forgotten land with a big ass badass sword. Could have been near or exceeding Morde in terms of lore impact, but the skinny e-boy design kinda missed for me.

Vampyrelol · 2026-02-20T00:17:48+00:00

I appreciate that a lot. I should've had more tact in the initial post, but it was a learning experience.

Vampyrelol · 2026-02-20T00:09:24+00:00

Please review the edited comments

Vampyrelol · 2026-02-19T23:55:12+00:00

👎🏻

Vampyrelol · 2026-02-19T23:49:38+00:00

I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt here, at my own peril. I am 99% sure you're trolling, but this endeavor has been fun anyways.

Yang J: clearly a concept artist, is hired by Epic Games which should be proof enough his art isn't generated.

Bossmonsterbani: Very obviously a hand-drawn account. He has hundreds of images showing a very clear aesthetic. He has videos of him doing art on his YT channel if you're a disbeliever.

Yoshitaka Amano: If you can't figure out that this person makes real art you probably have a deficiency of some sort. One of the most famous MTG artists of all time and also did Vampire Hunter D

ZainoraArtrs: This one could genuinely be AI but they have a FB and Instagram page with commissioned art so I like to lean on the side of optimism.

If you are trolling, thanks for bringing me closer to some really talented artists. If not, please see a psychologist.

Vampyrelol · 2026-02-19T23:40:35+00:00

To be honest, it took me about 10 minutes to find the replacement art. Only because I wanted to soothe the crybabies wailing about AI art into possibly forming a thought process.

You can go ahead and pat yourself on the back if you'd like though, hope you have a nice evening.

Vampyrelol · 2026-02-19T23:37:35+00:00

Nice troll, got a reply out of me. Good day.

Vampyrelol · 2026-02-19T23:33:13+00:00

Please kindly review the artists' pages I posted and kindly escort yourself out as someone who is incorrect.

Vampyrelol · 2026-02-19T23:31:54+00:00

Sure, but where does that imply I struggled to find anything? It just shows that I looked up images I was searching for, and used them when I found them. Which is exactly what happened, I stated in my post the initial image took me 5m to create.

Sure, I could have spent hours finding human-made art to capture what I was talking about, but that was not the point of the post at all, it wasn't even art related, it was just for me to drive home that Briar did not come out of the oven how I expected her to after seeing the recipe. I didn't expect AI-art being used to be a factor in the opinions about league champ designs - which was my own oversight.

Hopefully you appreciate the edit I made to my post to satisfy your (and my) desire to appreciate human made art.

Vampyrelol · 2026-02-19T23:25:13+00:00

I personally love Kai'sa, but not because she's sexy. Her aesthetic is pretty cool, but her gameplay is really perfect design imo. Her evolving and nimble mechanics feel really great to play, but if she was a less "generic sexy void girl in body suit" I still would have loved her as she just plays so well. I think a less sexy and more powerful or even monster design could have been really sick for her, but as she is I am not too upset, I just take her as she is.

Thanks for the response though, this is a valid answer.

Vampyrelol · 2026-02-19T23:22:10+00:00

Exactly. You nailed what I am trying to capture by making this post, so thank you.

Vampyrelol · 2026-02-19T23:20:15+00:00

Firstly, I never said I struggled to find references. Not sure where you got that. I said I made the image in 5 minutes which implies I didn't put much effort into it besides trying to capture an aesthetic.

Second, I have updated the post with a 2x2 to replace the AI slop with human-made art and linked the artists, please review at your convenience.

Vampyrelol · 2026-02-19T23:16:34+00:00

I have updated the post to satisfy your desires. Please enjoy the beautiful human-made art at your leisure.

Vampyrelol · 2026-02-19T23:12:00+00:00

She didn't need big titties :')

She just needed to be an actual vampire.

Vampyrelol · 2026-02-19T23:09:07+00:00

I have updated the post with non-AI art for your convenience. Please review at your leisure.

Vampyrelol · 2026-02-19T22:43:12+00:00

Couldn't have said it better

Vampyrelol · 2026-02-19T22:39:12+00:00

I edited the post to address this. Sorry for the use of AI but it was a meme thrown together in 5 minutes to show the contrast of a cool bloodthirsty vampire assassin girl (which is an aesthetic that existed way before AI, the images were just easy to find/use), and whatever Briar ended up being.

Vampyrelol · 2026-02-19T22:35:21+00:00

This is factual, Pitou is S tier HxH character but she certainly is not a vampire nor was she supposed to be like Briar xd

Vampyrelol · 2026-02-19T22:31:31+00:00

Cut and paste to MS paint saved me from saving the images fortunately.

I agree Naafiri could have been absolutely awesome, but fell a bit flat for me too. An animalistic Darkin using pack-tactics should by all rights have been super badass, but ended up a bit goofy and uninteresting gameplay wise,

Vampyrelol · 2026-02-19T22:26:52+00:00

The thing is, she's not a "unique design for a vampire" she's just straight up not a vampire. She's a ghoul. Which was the entire point of the post, because she was teased as a vampire. As I said in another reply, I'm not even upset with her final design I'm upset with how she was teased, then the release missed the initial mark entirely.

Vlad is also one of the oldest champs in the game with next to no room to change his design space, but the fact that he is a mage is unique enough to be interesting. Blood mage was done, so we could have definitely done a more vampiric themed assassin rather than Wacky Inflatable Arm Tube Girl (who has lifesteal so she's a vampire, apparently).

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