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i only put Sanguine Pool as my second skill so as to use it for escape...not to attack like Tides of Blood. at lvl 2 far more useful than tides of blood

i dont like your rune setup and your mastery spells, didnt work well for me.
I also dont like the boots 3 pots opening. I think vladimir doesnt need it, because he will easily escape ganks with his sanguine pool. He can catch up enemies with it too. I think you shouldnt skill your Pool as 2nd Skill, because it costs you too much HP. You wont be able to use it like your e Skill.
I am going to inspect your guide soon, maybe you are going to change something.

greetings & have a nice day

eberfleck

also, the extra point i would have to put in the utility tree (reduced flash CD etc) is useless as i now take Exhaust and Ghost which are only improved in the offense tree and improved recall is just...

see there is something i can work with, not random troll votes. in reference to the build i upvoted I did not see the spammed/copied text, if i could take back my vote and replace it with a report i would now.

with my guide i have extensively read the difference between sorc boots and their CD equivalent (on incendiax's top-rated vladimir build) and whilst this guide originally had ionain boots, once i became experienced enough with vlad and could dominate left right and centre as with all experienced vlad players (which i refer to in the latest edit to my guide). as such, i can manage my cooldowns and health bar so i dont need 40% cd as all the noob vlad's seem to be obsessed with, that is sorc boots provide magic pen early game when i dont have as much as i will later with Void Staff, at which point i do sell my boots and get lich bane which makes vlad auto attack &^#$#%& hard as he has 500AP...again this is in the top-rated vlad guide and will just add a 3rd offensive weapon for vlad which can be used with short cooldowns (along with Transfusion and Tides of Blood. On this point still, the cooldowns for transfusion at rank 5 are so small that extra cooldowns arent needed...especially if u get fed which is exactly what i and other experienced vlad players should be doing, its really not that hard to manage cooldowns...you know when ur spells are available for use and as such play accordingly.

i also oringally had flat AP quints and glyphs and flat health seals to combat vlad's early game woes, however with the recent patch (which i again refer to in my 2nd most recent edit) vlad's health cost-per spell has been significantly reduced for Tides of Blood (your most reliable, damaging and consistent source of damage) along with the complete removal of health-cost for his ultimate. this combined with an experienced vlad player who already knew how to manage pre-buff vlad will notice that they can begin harassing far earlier (ie prior to getting Hextech Revolver) with Tides of Blood due to this reduced health cost. as such i changed my build to include magic pen quints and glyhps and these provide the highest amount of late-game damage possible when combined with the already massive magic pen received from Void Staff. again, i mention in my guide that inexperienced vlad players should refer to my original (un-edited paragraph) for the rune setup right for them.

in reference to Abyssal Mask the magic resist it provides is a joke. your health bar by that point in the game coupled with your damage output (and thus increased health return via spell-vamp) is easily enough to see you through and in most team battles you as vlad will not be focused (your Graves will be etc). not to mention Sanguine Pool and Zhonya's Hourglass.......most champs are lucky if they have an escape mechanism, let alone one as GREAT as vlad's pool. furthermore on this point, vlad's passive (which no other AP 'nuker' as you put it has anything like) is the very reason i build the most AP and magic penon vlad (for most damage possible). that is, any LeBlanc, Karthus, Ahri etc etc rushes Rod of Ages consistently, and in some cases a ryali's crystal scepter on top of that. not only do these items provides less AP than what you as Vladimir can achieve, the health bonus from vlad's passive occurs simultaneously with these masssive AP items!!! in summary, you will always be tankier, with a better escape mechansim and more AP than other ap nukers or ad for that matter. whereas they sacrifice damage for health, armor, MR and overall survivability, vlad can go full AP and still receieve the health bonus at least without sacrificing and damage. this is what makes him uniquely tanky and incredibly damaging and should be built accordingly. any lesser items on Vladimir are not going to get you fed.

but again, there is an entire section deovted to alternate items for vlad as with any other guide, there may be certain situations where u need to tweak your build...which is pretty widely known as COMMON KNOWLEDGE.

in relation to the masteries yes i do now like the offense tree but again i would recommend new vlad players to go 9-0-21. with ur point on the 21-0-9 rather than 21-9-0 as i suggest in the guide, the reduced death time is a waste, the only other alternative is mana per level...and all for movement speed. there is a reason why people dont build vlad with movement quints (ie Sanguine Pool to escape ganks etc..). the 9 points in the defense tree provide health per lvl (far more useful than reduced time spent dead) along with a flat health increase at lvl 1 which when combined with the 3 health pots will (unless your a unskilled vlad player) see you through the early levels. also a touch of early armor never hurt anyone (time spent dead however does).

one last thing, are you on the european server or USA?

you admittedly don't play those 2 characters but you upvote an obvious troll's guide that just spammed the same words over and over about a thousand times. consorting with trolls makes you look like a troll especially with some of your troll votes. and when i did some searching on those trolls (whom you immediately knew i was referring to) your name consistently popped up. old saying says when you throw a rock into a pack of dogs the one hit yelps. if they are not your troll accounts well... why would you upvote it?

warmogs i rarely ever have used. however i found even it had a use every once in a while. offense tree is a nice touch. with no mr defensive items some of the stronger nukers (not even some of the stronger ones) will melt you in seconds. never underestimate the usefulness of some mr. abyssal scepter, spirit visage, force of nature etc. can't carry if you are dead. i am surprised you don't get 8 or 9 points in utility for the nice speed bonus. also while stacking flat mpen does help you... it does nothing to actually increase your sustain... which is your heal. only thing that increases your Transfusion's heal is ap. in effect you are actually hindering your early game (which i think everyone agrees is vlad's biggest weakness) by using mpen instead of flat ap. also mixing that much flat mpen with Void Staff actually decreases the effectiveness of the void staff. there were some guides here that had magic pen (flat and %) explained. i will see if i can find it for you. hmmm it seems several of the best guides are no longer up though. let me see if i can explain. no too much. let me see if i can sum up... flat mpen is applied first. magic pen % is applied afterward. for void staff to actually be worth it i think your enemy needs to have like 90 magic resist. and with the amount of mpen you have it further decreases the effectiveness of void staff. especially getting it that early in your build. late game perhaps. and do you sell your boots? for lich bane? drugs are bad mmmkay.

i would suggest replacing Void Staff with Abyssal Mask if you wish to continue to use Sorcerer's Shoes. however... you completely ignore the one stat that is made for vlad... cdr. 0%?!!? really? to each their own i suppose.

wow firstly i am not schnicker77 who i also 'researched' and with whom u seem to have quite the history, however i am not him/her or her friend mc something, neither is my account and i dont play nidalee or shyvana. secondly, what is wrong exactly with my build? look at the top-rated Vladimir guide from incendiax for reference and in relation to the 'bias' you mention im assuming your talking about Spirit Visage and Warmog's Armor. again i will refer you to the top-rated vlad guide and raise you 1 with my own experience in ranked games where Vladimir is widely under-estimated and those vlad's who build Spirit Visage and Warmog's Armor fan that notion by effectively becoming tanky, no damage, no threat vlad players. if u want to build Spirit Visage and Warmog's Armor that is perfectly fine however you will never carry hardcore or maximise Vladimir's full potential and players will continue to undervalue his abilities which is exactly what my build was created for. that is, to clear up any of the current misconceptions regarding Vladimir, with Spirit Visage and Warmog's Armor being principal among those. finally when u use the word 'bias' i find it hard to see a conflict of interest that would make me biased towards bad-repping Spirit Visage and Warmog's Armor. the word you should be using is 'dislike', as i 'dislike' both items as they are not the correct item choices for Vladimir.

the only thing i can further recommend to you is too follow my build including the magic pen runes and go up against another Vladimir player who uses flat ap runes and rushes Spirit Visage and Warmog's Armor and see how that pans out for the other guy.

and thirdly, stop stalking every single one of my comments.

schnicker. so much wrong with this. by looking at most of your items and mastery it looks almost serious until reading it. so much bias and so much a joke. not even worth a downvote. i think reading this has seriously made me consider the validity of this so called guide. qq you later.


edit: funny though... after doing a little research... you gripe about getting downvoted for 1 item choice even though you have consistently done the same or even with less of a reason. and you upvote your troll accounts and their spammed text... kharma perhaps?

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wow its not for the mana are u dumb? read its unique passive plz, or if u dont believe me plz read the top-rated Vladimir build for your own personal reference

um where exactly? you going to specify or massive troll sesh? wow.

you have a lot of your facts verrrrry wrong