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Spells:
Ignite
Flash
Ability Order
Crimson Pact (PASSIVE)
Vladimir Passive Ability
Naturally beefy
Harass
AoE spells
Untargetable with Senguine Pool
HP Regen
Immovable during laning
Incredibly powerful late game
Cons
Weak early game (fixed with


Shredded by


























Crimson Pact
(Innate): Every 40 points of bonus health gives Vladimir 1 ability power and every 1 point of ability power gives Vladimir 1.8 bonus health. This bonuses do not stack with themselves.
This is probably the most overpowered passive in the game. This basically means that any AP you get is added as an hp bonus, and vice versa. This makes items like



Transfusion
(Active): Vladimir drains the lifeforce of his target, dealing magic damage and healing himself.
No cost
Range: 600
Upgrade this to 5 first. Once you reach level 4 with this, don't be scared to spam it. This is your main source of harass, and one of your sources of damage.

Sanguine Pool
(Active): Vladimir sinks into a pool of blood for 2 seconds, becoming untargetable and slowing enemies above him by 40% for 1 second. Additionally, he deals magic damage every half second to them and heals himself for 12.5% of the damage done.
Cost: 20% of current health
Radius of AoE: 300 (estimate)
Here's where it gets tricky. Vlad's Sanguine Pool should only be used in certain situations, but never as a damage output. You'll hurt yourself more than the enemy with that enormous cost. Sanguine Pool has great synergy with



Sanguine Pool should usually only ever be used to:
Escape a powerful source of damage
Escape turret targeting
Slow an enemy running away
Escape in general

Tides of Blood
(Active): Vladimir unleashes a torrent of blood dealing magic damage to all nearby enemies.
Each cast gives him an Empowered stack which increases his healing and regeneration by 8% per stack for 10 seconds. This stacks up to four times. Additionally, his next tides of Blood deals 25% more damage and costs 50% more health per stack.
Cooldown: 4.5 seconds
Radius of AoE: 620
Tides of Blood is one of your main sources of damage, along with


Hemoplague
(Active): Vladimir infects all enemies in the target area with a virulent plague which increases the damage they take from all sources by 14% for 5 seconds. After these 5 seconds, infected enemies take magic damage.
Cost: 15% of current health
Range to center of AoE: 700
Radius of AoE: 350
Hemoplague boosts all damage done to anybody infected with it by 14%. This is the start of your combo in either the laning phase, or team fights. That 14% boost is needed for that burst if you want to take somebody out. Hemoplague also has great synergy with




Don't spam Hemoplague. It's only good if you follow it up, and it shouldn't be wasted on one person anyway, unless you're solo laning. In a team fight, aim for 3 people when they group up.
You should always start with













Upgrade your






Once you have your



















Your core will always be





















For starting items, I highly prefer





Other great picks








What not to get

Mejai's Soulstealer
This is just way too unreliable, and you have enough of a cool down reduction. Any good player or team won't let you stack this much. If you don't listen to me, then at least only use it for pub stomping, not ranked.

Rod Of Ages
This is such a waste of mana, and Vlad is already pretty beefy. It's expensive too.

Doran's Ring
Stacking Doran's Rings is pretty popular for mid game on AP Carries, but Vlad doesn't benefit much from this. Instead of wasting your gold on rings, get a


Archangel's Staff
What?

Banshee's Veil
It's a huge waste of mana and expensive. Instead, pick up a


Lich Bane
This promotes a bad play style, and is a huge waste of mana.


Warmog's Armor
Vlad is beefy enough as is. Just get some AP and you'll have a lot of HP.
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