Talk:Vladimir/@comment-5263329-20130201132742/@comment-4659726-20130202090833

Rabadon's usually is more than enough for your tanky problems since it does give hp for your AP. 40+25+120 Ap from revolver+kage's+deathcap = 240 AP and 336.7 extra hp. Positioning should solve any tankyness problems you have at that point because you have W and flash to be extremely slippery. Although I will note that buying Haunting Guise+Probably seekers(still need more testing) will come after deathcap because you need midgame items. Also, upgrading to wota really only needs to happen when full teamfights start and after you have damage. (deathcap). A common mistake I see is building penetration or low AP items on vlad without having a good amount of AP first, It isn't very good because even if vlad does true damage he doesn't have the Ap to back up that large amount of damage. Nor does he have the base damages to keep up with many champions.

From the mid game item goals: Guise, Wota, Seeker's. You can go get a giant's belt for Rylai's since the CC is very useful for peeling for the ADC. And chasing down your enemies. Last items to finish depend on game. Often Rylai's for me comes after guise. Zhonya's is often a good choice since you use it to be even harder to kill. And Guise -> Liandry's works fairly well against hp stacking since vlad has low cooldowns. Alternatively, getting Abyssal instead of Zhonya's gives more magic pen. Same with Void. But I don't think you need that much magic pen since your job is to blow up the carry and slow down the bruiser.

Sorc boots for mid lane are almost always gotten. And the only real benefit to CDR boots is more sustain, which you won't need mid. Top lane might be a different story. But with Sorcs+Guise stacking as is with the penetration changes, I find it hard to pass up Sorc boots.