Talk:Vladimir/@comment-2179912-20121210223039/@comment-4659726-20121213035348

Deathcap is core on Vlad pretty much now. It just gives him so much since it has damage, hp(passive), and healing (his Q's heal scales with AP). And there isn't anything wrong with building full damage. Considering that AP items often have resists attatched to them it is pretty good. Zhonya's and Abyssal lol.

Oh and whats this about being tanky and hard to kill? With proper positioning you can achieve this with Zhonya's. R > E > Q > Pool when they get too close > E > Q > Zhonya's when they get too close > Pool again(if they are still close) > EQ if not. So on and so forth. For building pure damage, you get to be extremely slippery and just take advantage of tons of damage. No need to build randuins or anything silly like that.

Be careful about that positioning and getting CC'ed though, Vlad isn't as useful as he could be if he gets nuked to nothing after dropping his ult and not contributing to damage otherwise.