Talk:Vladimir/@comment-26487776-20150614192819/@comment-24010081-20150807011508

RoA on Vlad would be great if you could accelerate the Stacks some way. However you generally need to buy RoA early so that you can get it fully stacked. However doing this means sacrificing much better and more incementally powerful items, leaving Vlad weaker for an even longer period.

And if you instead wait to buy it later, well odds are decent that it doesn't make it to full stacks before end game in which case you paid too much for a weak item.