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Spells:
Cleanse
Exhaust
Ability Order
Crimson Pact (PASSIVE)
Vladimir Passive Ability
Introduction
I know most of you are probably thinking "Wtf 5 Deathcaps?" please read the full guide before hating, I do explain why it works, on Vlad only.
Note: As Vlad, your team should give you mid. If you're with Kass, Urgot, etc, do not play Vlad. He's useless on a side lane due to no power till level 7/9.

This is your bread and butter spell. It has low CD, no cost, good damage, healing, and no cast time. This makes it good for last-hitting minions and harassing champs, plus you can farm yourself back to full health with it late game.

This spell has high cost and fairly low damage, but slows and makes you untargetable and impossible to hit with projectiles like Giant Crystalline Arrow. It can be used:
1. To escape
2. While waiting for CDs to finish in a fight
3. To chase
4. To avoid just about anything bad (i.e. CCs, Nunu's ult...)
5. To tower dive
Save it for a time when you need it, it has a long CD but it will save your but in ganks, and it's not worth using for damage most of the time anyway.

This AoE is useful for a number of reasons:
1. Low CD
2. Good damage once you get buff stacks on it
3. Great for farming
4. increases healing on

5. Also hits stealthed enemies, and because of the animation, that lets you know where they are.

Another good AoE, but this one helps your whole team! The debuff allows you to kill just about anything, and it works for your whole team! Kinky! That pesky Teemo flash away with 40 health again? No problem! Just watch and wait.*
*Watching and waiting will only work if said Teemo still had your ult debuff and has health under what it'll deal when it goes away.








The rest: No. Just no.







Core Build






Optional Items
Replace revolver and boots with these if necessary.
My personal choice for normal solo-queue is to stack Deathcaps on every slot except your Soul Stealer. The passive doesn't stack but they're the highest AP item in the game except Soul Stealer by 40 and Soul Stealer's passive also doesn't stack.

Anything in build 2 is good on Vlad if you're looking for a more normal build.
You can also try putting in Warmog's but the HP/AP scaling in his innate isn't very good.
Other options:
1.
Better survivability.
Mejai's Souolstealer



2.
Even better survivability.






3.
Cause why not pretend you're Fiddlesticks?






Be passive aggressive. If they come in range, drain 'em and get back. Otherwise just stick to farming minions. Do not push, just let the minions do the work and then last hit everything that you can. Also,


At level 10+, spamming

This is about where team fights should start breaking out. What's your role? Drop your ult and start spamming Q and E. Do not use


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