Talk:Vladimir/@comment-25252206-20140814043221/@comment-5211662-20140814164915

Even on off-tank Vladimir, WotA is the better choice. The AD is completely wasted on Vladimir.

Lifesteal giving more sustain to Vlad? Well, the health you regain from lifesteal scales with how much damage you deal with auto-attacks. This means the less damage you do, the less health you regain. Unless you are doing an AD build, lifesteal is worthless, because you will not do enough damage with your auto-attacks to regain sufficient health to make lifesteal worthwile, Remember that Vladimir has a poor base AD and that enemies have armor, and armor will just decrease even more the effects from lifesteal. Not only that, but Vladimir is not an auto-attack based champion. He is a caster, he needs spellvamp, not lifesteal.

"The extra AD means Vladimir can last-hit easier". This may be true, but still doesn't make Gunblade a good item to build on Vlad. Just learn how to last-hit with his auto-attack animation. Or better yet, use your abilities to farm.

"The active slow" - If you really want a slow to make up for Vladimir's lack of CC, build a Rylai's Crystal Scepter. I actually consider Rylai to be a core item for Vladimir. Not only because of the slow, but also because of the HP and AP. This item makes Vladimir even tankier than he already is. And is extremely cost-efficient because of his passive giving him even more HP and AP.