Talk:Vladimir/@comment-33628828-20130623014718

I see lots of vlads these days building lots of spellvamp and health over AP, and I am very confused as to why. In my experience, these vlads just fail at everything - they aren't tanky enough to be tanks, and they don't do enough damage to be called an AP carry. That combined with using their pool as an initiate equals literally every vlad I've seen doing the high sv/health build just feeding.

Do people realize that the passive works much better by getting lots of AP over lots of health? When you have 900AP fully built, it doesn't matter if you only have 20% SV from WOTA and some from runes, because your Q heals you back for so much and you almost burst kill people with a 800+ damage q every 3 seconds. Plus, if you get rabadons, zhonyas, dfg and rylais you're already looking at 3.5k health and some good armour.

If you've worked out a good sv/health build for vlad, please do let me know. If I can improve my 8/2/8 ranked averages on vlad I would love it. I know lots of people use it, but it would be nice to hear from someone who uses it well.