Sry but this build is **** man for example why would you not inniciate with your ult ? lets say the teamfight is up 2 o yours killed you use ult they run away nobody gets the kill you think they ported back and then they jump trough the wall with shaco and he kills the rest of you or with tryn -> lost teamfight and probably game if you inniciate the fight with your ult they get 14% more dmg lets say you have trynd with my offtank build in it he does instead of 1400 crit 1700 and this makes a difference

i bought 2x hats becouse they only had ryze as mage dps. The choice is up to u...Magic resist against mages Hourglass against dps or 70ap+40% spell pen for tanky teams =) glhf

pritty good Build if u play it right and get the stacks i will vote this up +1 for infomation, http://img843.imageshack.us/i/88451550.png/

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What math? That isnt math. Thats something that screams at you when you are looking at the items.

Try it. Warmogs on DPS vlad is amazing. I play DPS vlad like I play olaf. The longer I live the more I can cause you hell. In all reality a bad vlad is a nuker vlad. I have not yet seen a nuker vlad beat me mainly because they die so fast. The teammates just go for him first. :DDD In all reality warmogs inst that bad. The regen it gives you is nice(especially paired with SV) :/ People just like to tell themselves that it is and when they get raped by a warmogs vlad they dont even know what hit them.

just.... no. I bet you just saw too many Phreak's spotlight. Vlad didn't need any hp quint because he couldnt be hit by anyone when i wrote this build (because of his transfusion range). HP quints are useful when you're low lvl but vlad used to have such a range that you would never be hit.



Nope. CD glyphes get you 5.8% cd reduction, which means your ult will now be on a 114sec cd instead of 120. I'd rather get 50 ap & 100 hp from those runes.



When i wrote this build Tides of blood range was ****py. But anyway, i always play mid with Vlad so i'm lvl 10 really fast and the only thing i fear when i'm mid is being ganked. That's why i take Blood pool, because every point in that ability reduce the cooldown by 3 sec(a lot better than any cd rune).

Ok, runes not horrible but you should get solid hp quints ability power quints just bad, also cd reduction glyphs are alot better than AP glyphs the more often you can drop your ult and go into pool equals win. You lose some AP from that but not enough to hurt badly. Also i saw a post and didnt read all of them but one you said cd reduction is in offense tree and last time i checked my spec out all but like 5 points in my utility spec are for CD reduction so um yea. If you spec utility with 9 in offense you get alot more cd reduction but i dont maybe that just doesn't make sense?~?~?~? So other than that also its best to grab tides of blood when you lvl to 4 just becuase its an extra CD to pop o and it increases your health absorbtion....... why would you not get this way before lvl 10 your only sacrifcing 1 lvl of pool for another cd?~?~?~?~? But thats about all the holes i found but those are some really freaking big holes!!

I have been using this build, these masteries, and I am working towards getting my runes now, tried the Warmog and I thought it was useless as well, only time I do get it is when we are Defending base after getting behind on occasion, and even then it isnt very well worth it.

+1 on the guide brah, you did the math, made the effort, etc.

Though I do believe the last item can be a situational thing such as a Guardian or a Void Staff...or even a defensive item If somebody finds its Necessary...

because warmorg is useless ? It's one of the most expensive item in the world and it gives you 1200hp (45ap thx to passive)
Fort that price i can buy zhorna's ring and get 120+(0.25x420) = 225ap (500hp thx to passive)

Another guy who just rate down and comment without doing the math. Getting a warmorg for a dps vlad build is totaly ******ed.

I dont really undestrand why people stay away from warmogs. it is a very good item for vlad. I feel like Abyssal scepter is completely useless with vlad. It just doesnt really give you what youa re looking for. Maybe if you replaced it with warmogs or Lev it would work better.

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With vlad i use Mejais, Sorcerer's boots, wyrmogs, rlyais, spirit visage and zhonyas.

End game has 5.4k hp 700 ap 160 hp5, definetly a better setup than this one.

Wanna come back on what was said before.

You answered to most of what Olat said, and rightly. I personnaly use a full AP rune page (85 at lvl 18, wich means nearly 5/lvl, far better than flat ap), and yes, flat runes (not only AP) sucks. Considering the HP stack of this hero, i don't think life runes are the best choice, and you can get penetration with boots and void staff (though I prefer +3 or +2/+5 boots).

As Olat said, i'd personnaly go void staff instead of Abyssal scepter, but only if the opponents don't have a lot of AP heroes because as you said, 57 magic resist is really great (veigar alone is not a problem with your hp/regen/untargettable).

Masteries are a choice to be made but yours are not bad. I personnaly prefer Utilities, almost for the 9% move speed and 15% invoquer's spell reduction (+enhanced flash).

@FuzzeWuzze : "Maybe if you are stacking a full page of flat AP runes it will be worth it early game if you can get the kills. But just doing it with one is kinda dumb."
Not even better in early game (or lvl 1 ... but ...) : full AP@18 + 3 points of materies gives you 5/lvl, which grants your more AP than flat at lvl 4.