Mercury's Treads don't really function well on Vladimir. He isn't supposed to be a tank, nor is he supposed to get targetted with much CC. Swap them out of Ionian Boots of Lucidity. Second, the WoTA before the Rabadon's is useless if you buy a lot of items in between them. Rushing WoTA is more efficient, and Rylai's isn't a very good item to have as your second core. Consider this:

A: Earlier WoTA, Or don't incorporate it until later. It's the best early game item for Vlad.
B: Ionian Boots of Lucidity over Mercury's Treads,
C: Rabadon's Deathcap before the Rylai's Crystal Scepter
D: Drop the Abyssal Mask, only get it if the other team isn't stacking MR. Void Staff is a better purchase if they have over 80 MR.

Void staff mitigates (100-40= 60) Of their MR, while Abyssal Scepter only mitigates (100-20=80) of their MR. Multiplicatives apply before Additives in the game btw, so remember that. You want a good amount of % reduction before you start to get the actual numericals.

If you want the math behind all of my reasoning, you can check out the "Cooldown Reduction vs Magic Penetration" section on my guide. It explains it all in full detail there.

+1, much better ^^

Not voting this guide.

1. You should get sorc boots for early game spell pen before you get void staff, but starting with mercs, especially when you have your troll pool to escape CCs, isn't necessary. You can always sell your sorcs and get mercs once you buy your void staff.
2. WotA is a strong early game item, do NOT get it as your last item.
3. You get void AND abyssal, very unnecessary...abyssal reduces the effect of void as well.
4. You say he has a good late game in pros, and a bad late game in cons...what?

He is an AP carry, he has a great late game, that should be a PRO, take it completely out of cons.

5. Also, in cons you say how his skills can kill you, I'm pretty sure they can't directly, it will show you being OOM (skill shaded in light blue, and you can't cast it) if you are too low on health. But, they CAN reduce your HP so you are easier to kill, although you can heal right back up with your Q and spell vamp when you get it.

Also, check out Spirit Visage. It lets you heal more, a really great and cheap buy for Vlad.

Hope I helped, I won't be voting right now, but if you make these changes, PM me and I will come back to check it out again ^^

Great items! Though not entirely sure why you get Mercury Treads, I still like it1!:)

Merc threads isn't too good for Vlad, who can be both tankish and at the back. If you realised, Void Staff is in % Magic Pen, good against tanks only. Most other champs have 30-60 MR at late levels w/o MR items, so % Pen is not good unless against a tanker team. Abyssal would be better for fixed Magic Pen, and Sorc Shoes will r@pe the rest of the MR for you to hit.

Usually, I prefer taking Defensive Masteries over Utility Masteries. For Utility Masteries, you get EXP gain, reduced death timer, small CDR and reduced summoner spell as the only few useful masteries. In defensive, you get extra HP, increase AP ratios, various small increases in tankyness that helps early, as well as Tenacity to give you great overall tankyness :) Its my preference, but you may want to test it out too :D

Hope it helps :)

This buildis great.But i dont think you need Abyssal scepter with Void staff.It reduses the waut it works.

+1 Good guide overall, nice job :D. The items you have are good but i dont like the order =/ i tend to get hextech revolver, rush rabadons, then go into WoA.