Talk:Vladimir/@comment-5211662-20151212080541/@comment-27200294-20151214163721

Not saying you're wrong, CDR vlad is best vlad, you know what you're talking about. And also the fact that vlad is super squishy pre 6. Unless you're faker level, going into a tough matchup with barely a quint at early game will only result in cs deficiency and losing the lane.

About CDR, there's a variety of items that offer CDR, and all the good items on vlad gives you those. WoTA, Ion, Visage, heck even sheen. Furthermore, CDR tends to come cheap and in component(Kindle 850G, codex 800G, ion upgrade 500G...), so getting capped mid/late game isn't difficult, even less so if you lane well.

Long story short, CDR is cheap to itemize and has many items good on vlad. You can mix in CDR runes, but be warned, you run the risk of a lackluster laning phase at best, being pubstomp at worst. Not saying there is one way of doing things, but ARpen, MR, AR, MS quint often provides considerable and reliable result(and being cheaper than scale CDR is a plus).