Talk:Vladimir/@comment-5211662-20151212080541

Vladimir with 3 cooldown reduction per level quints and 3 CDR per level glyphs is ridiculously powerful and I wonder why I never used it before. I could have carried so many games with him...

With those runes, WotA, and Ionian Boots, you can easily reach the 40% cooldown reduction cap, despite all recent nerfs to APs in terms of cooldown reduction items and masteries.

The main thing about those runes is that they allow you to stack CDR way earlier and with more cooldown reduction, you are able to use yor abilities more, and thus heal more, trade better with your opponents, and have your pool avaliable more often when you haven't maxed it yet. This may sound obvious. But here is the thing, most people don't stack cooldown reduction on Vladimir, and this leaves him way weaker than he should be; he can potentially lose trades against champions like Riven, Nasus, Lee Sin, and many ADCs, without those maxed 40% CDR. Cooldown reduction Vlad is easily his best build.