User blog comment:Willbachbakal/(Champion Rework) Vladimir, the Crimson Reaper/@comment-3974211-20150106200421/@comment-1330314-20150106202816

probably has similar accessibility due to how cooldown reduction works on him, but overall yes, the above change would give Vlad a root with the shortest cooldown in the game. However, it doesn't have the biggest uptime: seconds every 3 seconds is ~17% uptime, and ~28% uptime at maximum CDR. has a 2-second root on a 9-second cooldown, which represents 22% uptime without CDR and ~37% uptime at max CDR. Similarly, 's root has between 27 and 45% uptime. Combined with the -second windup on cast, it means Vlad doesn't get major CC even if he itemizes for it.