Vladimir is a champ that I’ve had trouble getting a handle on. When I faced him he seemed to put out immense damage and just generally be something of a bully. However, when I played as him, I felt like I could do no damage and found myself having to go back frequently after trading and burning through all my Health Potions.

And while I’m not quite up to feeling like I can carry with him, I do feel like I’ve gotten a better handle on him and the epiphany was thus.

Tides of Blood increases your self-healing, which means that Transfusion is more effective if used... Read More

Tried some games last night running a 21-9-0 Olaf and going for a more damage oriented build when possible.

General

The biggest thing that is going to mess you up as Olaf is accidentally using Reckless Swing on an unintended target. When laning, you can alleviate this by practicing using the tilde key `/~ + E, which directs an ability to only target champions. However, I find the key placement a little awkward, so I may see about rebinding it to an alternative that is easier to reach.

In team fights where there are no minions are around you just have to be extra... Read More

A little late to the party on this one, but I finally had an opportunity to play Sion again a couple of days ago.

It takes Sion a lot of mana to trade. He has difficulty with anyone that can shield or sustain through the damage he does.

The nerfs have made it harder for him to flat out dominate some of the lanes he could when he was still overtuned after his re-work.

His ultimate and other crowd control plus his ability to infinitely stack health and still do respectable damage make him a super tank that is just about always useful to have on your team assuming you need a... Read More

Swain

Is an AP mage that can serve as a top or mid laner. He has good catch potential with Decrepify and Nevermove and he can tank and deal a lot of damage between Torment and Ravenous Flock. He does take a while to ramp up in lane, but once he is online he has the potential to take over a game.

FalseoGod has a really good guide to get you started with Swain so go take a look at that for an in-depth overview of the Master Tactician.

Quas is a god on Swain so look up some videos of his Swain play if you want to see it done right.

You can tailor your runes... Read More

Olaf is pretty versatile in the sense that, in many cases, he can build tank or damage and still do his job (getting to and killing the enemy carries or keeping them out of the fight long enough that your team can beat their team) effectively.

Tanklaf = 9-21-0
Olafgar = 21-9-0

Tanklaf

In match-ups were you are automatically going to get poked to heck and back you can go 9-21-0 and just build tanky to survive the poke while getting the farm that you can. Ragnarok still lets you get to the enemy team's carries unimpeded by pesky crowd control. Reckless Swing still... Read More