My main account recently got banned for 14 days. So in the mean time I decided to use my smurf and try to keep the highest win rate I could. I went 10-0 in my promos but because of the very low mmr of the account got placed bronze 5. I climbed from bronze 5 to silver 4 with a 77% win rate. Most people I faced were of my level from bronze 1 to silver 4. I duo'd with my friend who had never gotten to silver before from b3 to s5,that's why I don't have that much vlad games and got quite a lot of adc games.

Runes are pretty straight forward. The changes I could recommend are the following.Take scaling mr instead of mr, You could even take ability power if you are agaisnt an ad lane and an ad jungler.The other change you could make is taking scaling health instead of armor, should be done agaisnt an ap lane and jungler. The only reasons I don't do them is the lack of ip and runes pages.

My earlier games I would only go the bruiser route with spirit visage first or second item. But while watching YoDa who was the midlaner for the Red Canids before becoming a popular brazilian streamer, I saw that he went a build where he got liandry's second item and no spirit visage I told myself I'd try it. I'd say it's better for carrying because you can one shot the enemy carries more reliably.

Not much here, take pool level 4 or 3.

One of the best thing to do when you are trying to climb the lower elos is to get an early lead and tilt your enemy by killing them over and over again. I saw that I could do that the best with vladimir because of the combos/things i'll say in the next chapter. I think one of the strengths of vladimir that makes him really good for me is that he is always good no matter what time of the game it is.

Most low elo players don't really know how to play agaisnt vladimir because of his really low play rate, so they don't understand your q. One thing you can do is try to poke them alot with q at level 1 to get them somewhere from 250 to 350hp. Then try and time your q so you get the empowered q right after hitting level 2 and do the following combo: Charge your E-Flash right when it's about to expire-Empowered Q-Into one or 2 auto attacks; gets you the kill or atleast both their summoners.

The other trick that you can use to mostly tilt your opponent is to keep diving them. Vladimir's dive is pretty freestlylish but one thing you want to make sure of is that you only use your pool to get out of tower aggro. One combo I use often is the same one as the level 2 cheese but with ultimate at the beggining so you get the healing at the end of tbe combo to maybe survive a tower shot.

PROS / CONS
Good at all times / Quite a bad range
Great and easy laning phase / Hard to get on somebody without flash
Great one shot ability / Hard to comeback if behind
Hard to kill if not focused

If you don't succeed at the level 2 cheese but get the opponents summs, you should try and get a gank from your jungler or just try to all in him by getting in range with stromraiders. Versus hard poke lane you should try to farm with q and stay healthy without wasting your Pool/W.

I'll try and update the champion list when I get the time and i'll update you guys on the rest of my climb to gold! Have a great day and always smile!