Talk:Vladimir/@comment-5779359-20130816085245/@comment-7967732-20130817090550

Early game Vlad = farm up and stay as safe as possible. You will hardly be able to kill anyone, even a "poke me pls" champion like Singed, so AP early doesn't mean much offensively. Defensively, with 40 AP, you gain 10 more health per Q used (10 sec until level 3, which require you use it everytime off CD) which is the same amount that Rejuv bead gives passively in 10 sec. Besides, Vlad early game is so weak, many can push you out easily if you have small amount of health pots, and any non-ward start is still too risky even if you take ghost + flash. So I will never go Doran ring, not to mention it is wasted later on.