Talk:Vladimir/@comment-7846894-20140610065443/@comment-25308189-20140815145320

Vlad main here also. In top.

As the other guy who says he is a main said, you bloom at LVL 9. But I build Vlad differently.

I start out with boots. Always. Flash and TP. And use scaling ap Glyphs, even against AP toppers like ryze. I've never lost against and AP top.

My late game build only varies in 1 item and in a 1 in a 100 situation: against full ad teams without any high base magical damage champs like tristana, jax, etc. The build is: Sorc boots with alacrity, WOTA, Rylai's, Rabadon, Liandri's and Visage. Only agains the full ad tem I mentioned I get Randuin's over Visage. Randuin's is better than Zhonyas for armor in my opinions as Vlad's Ratios aren't that great and after testing, the damage boost and active is not as good as the aditional sustain and damage you get with all the life, slows an pasive ap you get from randuin's.

Always start with boots, as mobility is the most important thing with vlad. The trick here is controling atack and abilities ranges, being close when you can hit and far away when you are on cd, and having the skill to get back in range when you need to.

Early game spam your q against the enemy laner and only farm when safe. Keep you health and health pots up the most. I always get my first kill that way: at level 6 outsustaining the enemy, with tp up and a pair of health pots still in your pack, they'll be too afraid to recall because your TP will let you get too much exp. advantage if they do so. If they recall, you recall and tp back and get that exp and push to the tower so he loses lots of cs and exp against his own tower.

What I always rush, regardless of the matchup is hextech revolver, then rylai's and finish boots and put alacrity on. When you have all those you get the safety and bully power alacrity gives you as a very slow champ, and the ms enough to be able to e + q, get out of range 'till regaining cd, and get back to e + q again. You only get out of range if they try to get near you, you just have to keep a safe distance. If they have high mobility champs and try to run away, always e + q at different times, so you slow more consistenly for the chase.

Just after those items I get visage.