Talk:Vladimir/@comment-5159141-20120927134143/@comment-5159141-20120930131559

For starters, I wouldn't say you know "what's best" for Vlad. Fine, go with twenty different runepages for one character, if you've got too much IP/money on your hands. In most cases, I won't agree with you that runes are situational - items are, and a runepage is something you customize for a certain character, to increase his/her effectiveness in game. This is mostly aimed towards synergy. If you need to adapt to a certain situation, you get an ITEM during the game which provides you with actual, strong bonuses and you can see a difference instantly. I honestly can't even see your point here.

Second, I previously wrote that this page is what, in my opinion, is a best overall rune setup for helping Vlad's earlygame. You might have not noticed those two simple keywords - "my opinion" and "earlygame". I never said this is an universal, always-best-scenario, one-and-only set of runes that Vlad should use ALWAYS and WHENEVER for optimum gameplay experience. Usually, an experienced player will select a combination of runes, masteries and items which match and supplement one another, and suit the given matchup as well. This should be obvious for you, but It looks like it is not, after all. Therefore, I'd rather say that you are "not ranked very high".

Myself, I've got three different runepages for Vlad right now. That page I posted here is what I currently go with in most games, since it's sufficient to play with on normal and some ranked matches. It does not provide stats that are easily capped (like CDR) so it is flexible, but also specialized for a certain game phase of this champion at the same time. The other two pages are there solely for specific situations in ranked games which require drastic changes in my gameplay style (one of them when there's a certain counterpick taken). I do perfectly fine with these alone.

TL;DR - In my opinon, one runepage for every situation is not a good option, but thinking of runes as at the same level of customization as items is just downright stupid.

Also, if you're interested, right now I'm ranked as a Tier-III Platinum player in EU Nordic&East. That may be not "high", but I've been playing this damn game a bit.

Cheers.