[14.2+] Vladimir Season 14 Guide
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Recommended Items
Runes: AERY RUNE PAGE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Sorcery
Precision
+8 Ability Haste
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+65 Base Health
Spells:
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3
4
5
Early-game oriented summoner spells
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![LoL Summoner Spell: Flash]()
![LoL Summoner Spell: Ignite]()
Flash
Ignite
Items
STARTING ITEMS
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Standart Item Start
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Greedy start
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Dark Seal different variation
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Doran's Shield
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FIRST RECALL OPTIONS
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FULL BUILD EXAMPLES (KEEP IN MIND SORCS ARE SWAPPABLE WITH LUCIDITY BOOTS IN EVERY BUILD)
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Cosmic Drive rush
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Deathcap rush
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Movement Speed Build
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Elite500's tank build
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Cosmic second
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Liandry first
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Double Fiendish Codex start
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BUILDABLE VLADIMIR ITEMS
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Riftmaker
Liandry's Torment
Hextech Rocketbelt
Cosmic Drive
Rabadon's Deathcap
Sorcerer's Shoes
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Boots of Swiftness
Mejai's Soulstealer
Void Staff
Shadowflame
Zhonya's Hourglass
Stormsurge
Horizon Focus
Morellonomicon
Cryptbloom
Shurelya's Battlesong
Dead Man's Plate
Randuin's Omen
Jak'Sho, The Protean
Abyssal Mask
Banshee's Veil
Spirit Visage
Heartsteel
Frozen Heart
Sunfire Aegis
Unending Despair
Iceborn Gauntlet
Ability Order STANDARD ORDER (READ THE NOTE)
Crimson Pact (PASSIVE)
Vladimir Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies
Threats
Synergies
Extreme
Major
Even
Minor
Tiny
Show All
None
Low
Ok
Strong
Ideal
Extreme Threats
Ideal Synergies
Aatrox
Easier midlane compared to top, but still hard. Buy cdr early, block his W, and try to stay out of his Q range. If he buys mr you can't do anything, just scale.
Synergies
Ideal
Strong
Ok
Low
None
Ⅰ The first thing you need to learn is farming and hitting 10 cs per minute. Having a high cs score is something you can achieve in 100% of your games.
Ⅱ
Vladimir is a champion that needs to be played very selfishly. This is why most of the time the correct play would be staying on your lane and farming. You can only roam on a good wave (meaning either when the wave is fully crashed under the enemy tower or slow pushing into you), and when you know 100% that the play will work and will be more beneficial than staying midlane.
Ⅲ Mid game, the person with Teleport has to be on the opposite side of the objective, so if Rift Herald/ Baron spawns, he has to be bot and if Drake spawns, he has to be top. This applies to you as well if you are running Teleport, but most of the games Vladimir won't have Teleport so you need to be on the side of the map where the objective spawns and the ADC needs to be mid.
Ⅳ If the enemy team is stronger and you can't contest the objective, go on the opposite side of the map and try to make a trade there. You can push, get a tower, maybe even get a kill, and if your team doesn't listen to you and decides to contest, die and flame you afterwords (which will most likely happen a lot if you're playing in low elo), just mute them. It's never worth it to type back, get angry, and play bad as a result.
Ⅴ During the laning phase, you can use your summoners (your Ghost in particular,and maybe Ignite if you have it) to get a big trade on your opponent since there isn't anything else you can use them for that early into the game, so ghosting on your lane opponent to hit them with an empowered Transfusion and auto attack them a couple of times is extremely worth. However, mid and late game it's the opposite. Since Vladimir has no mobility and is pretty low range, he needs to have summoners in order to participate in a fight, so always check in how much time does the next objective spawns to know if you are allowed to use summoners or not. Using summoners before an objective is only worth if you use them to kill a fed member of their team or their jungler, but even then, there are situations where you would prefer to play 5v5 with your summoners up than to 4v5 with no summoners, so you will need experience in order to consistently make the best decision.
Ⅱ
Vladimir is a champion that needs to be played very selfishly. This is why most of the time the correct play would be staying on your lane and farming. You can only roam on a good wave (meaning either when the wave is fully crashed under the enemy tower or slow pushing into you), and when you know 100% that the play will work and will be more beneficial than staying midlane.Ⅲ Mid game, the person with
Teleport has to be on the opposite side of the objective, so if Rift Herald/ Baron spawns, he has to be bot and if Drake spawns, he has to be top. This applies to you as well if you are running Teleport, but most of the games Vladimir won't have Teleport so you need to be on the side of the map where the objective spawns and the ADC needs to be mid.Ⅳ If the enemy team is stronger and you can't contest the objective, go on the opposite side of the map and try to make a trade there. You can push, get a tower, maybe even get a kill, and if your team doesn't listen to you and decides to contest, die and flame you afterwords (which will most likely happen a lot if you're playing in low elo), just mute them. It's never worth it to type back, get angry, and play bad as a result.
Ⅴ During the laning phase, you can use your summoners (your
Ghost in particular,and maybe Ignite if you have it) to get a big trade on your opponent since there isn't anything else you can use them for that early into the game, so ghosting on your lane opponent to hit them with an empowered Transfusion and auto attack them a couple of times is extremely worth. However, mid and late game it's the opposite. Since Vladimir has no mobility and is pretty low range, he needs to have summoners in order to participate in a fight, so always check in how much time does the next objective spawns to know if you are allowed to use summoners or not. Using summoners before an objective is only worth if you use them to kill a fed member of their team or their jungler, but even then, there are situations where you would prefer to play 5v5 with your summoners up than to 4v5 with no summoners, so you will need experience in order to consistently make the best decision.
Single Target Combo:
Hold Tides of Blood > Flash > Release Tides of Blood > Hemoplague > Transfusion (and Ignite if you have it).
You release Tides of Blood yourself before your Hemoplague becuase it's alot faster and impossible to react to if done correctly.
Some people do: Hold Tides of Blood > Flash > Hemoplague > Tides of Blood > Transfusion since pressing Hemoplague automatically releases your Tides of Blood, but the combo is really slow and easy to react to.
Team Fight Combo:
If you see the enemy team clumped up do: Flash > Hemoplague > Transfusion > Tides of Blood > Sanguine Pool.
Transfusion if you have 50% Crimson Rush so you get empowered Transfusion after you exit Sanguine Pool.
This combo is even better if you are running Phase Rush.
Zhonya's Hourglass Team Fight combo:
Start the combo with 0% Crimson Rush Flash > Hemoplague > Transfusion > Tides of Blood > Sanguine Pool > Transfusion > Zhonya's Hourglass by that point you should've gotten some takedowns so your Transcendence will reduce the cdr on your abilities and you will be able to use Sanguine Pool again.
If you start the combo with 50% Crimson Rush do the exact same thing just don't use Transfusion before Hemoplague.
You are untargetable for 6.5 seconds while also doing insane amounts of damage to the enemies, and the combo is very useful even when you're behind. You won't see yourself doing this exact combo very often, it's hard to do it consistently and i don't think Zhonya's Hourglass is that good this season due to its high price and lack of cdr, but still just keep it in mind.
Hold
Tides of Blood > Flash > Release Tides of Blood > Hemoplague > Transfusion (and Ignite if you have it).You release
Tides of Blood yourself before your Hemoplague becuase it's alot faster and impossible to react to if done correctly.Some people do: Hold
Tides of Blood > Flash > Hemoplague > Tides of Blood > Transfusion since pressing Hemoplague automatically releases your Tides of Blood, but the combo is really slow and easy to react to.Team Fight Combo:
If you see the enemy team clumped up do:
Flash > Hemoplague > Transfusion > Tides of Blood > Sanguine Pool. Transfusion if you have 50% Crimson Rush so you get empowered Transfusion after you exit Sanguine Pool.This combo is even better if you are running
Phase Rush. Zhonya's Hourglass Team Fight combo:Start the combo with 0% Crimson Rush
Flash > Hemoplague > Transfusion > Tides of Blood > Sanguine Pool > Transfusion > Zhonya's Hourglass by that point you should've gotten some takedowns so your Transcendence will reduce the cdr on your abilities and you will be able to use Sanguine Pool again.If you start the combo with 50% Crimson Rush do the exact same thing just don't use
Transfusion before Hemoplague.You are untargetable for 6.5 seconds while also doing insane amounts of damage to the enemies, and the combo is very useful even when you're behind. You won't see yourself doing this exact combo very often, it's hard to do it consistently and i don't think
Zhonya's Hourglass is that good this season due to its high price and lack of cdr, but still just keep it in mind.
Blood Lord Vladimir
: 10/10 Amazing animations, extremely good taunts, badass voice and quotes, satisfying ability sounds, and a GODLY laugh. Marquis Vladimir
: 10/10 Feels really good to play with, legit makes me have better movement and looks very good. Nightbringer Vladimir
: 9/10 Has invisible ult, stunning ability effects, satisfying sounds, and looks spectacular (especially with the Obsidian Chroma). It was also my first ever Vladimir skin, so bonus points for that. Dark Waters Vladimir
: 9/10 Also has invisible ult (in the river especially), really nice ability sounds, and a modified voice. Swappable with
Nightbringer Vladimir
. Soulstealer Vladimir
: 8/10 No one uses this skin, but I personally like it a lot. The only bad thing about it is that it feels sluggish to play with, the E feels like it charges slower than usual, and it makes me hold my E button harder. Cosmic Devourer Vladimir
: 8/10 I like the sound effects; his ult is almost invisible, and he also has a modified voice like Dark Waters. Overall, decent skin; the only downside is his Q; it feels extremely clunky, and it doesn't feel that satisfying to Q things, which I didn't even know was possible. Cafe Cuties Vladimir
: 8/10 People meme this skin, but I don't care; I think the skin is pretty good, especially with the Obsidian and Tarzanite chromas. Broken Covenant Vladimir
: 8/10 Maybe a black-themed Broken Covenant skin would've been better, but this one is still really good. Another skin with an invisible ult; the pool looks massive but also nice in a way. Vandal Vladimir
: 7/10 Feels good to play with, and I like the alternative aesthetic. Nosferatu Vladimir
: 7/10 I kinda like his cape, don't really know why. Oh, and he is also bald!!! Academy Vladimir
: 7/10 Cool skin. I really like how they gave him a scarf instead of a cape, but his hands seem to be bigger on this skin for some reason. Vladimir: 6/10 I know everyone hates this skin, but for me, it's the same case as Soulstealer; it doesn't feel good to play with. If Vlad receives a visual update without Riot changing the way he is depicted, he will look extremely good, in my opinion. Count Vladimir
: 6/10 The exact same thing goes for this skin since it's literally just a black chroma of the original, but I do think they should make this one a separate skin and not just a chroma; it has a lot of potential.
Welcome to my Season 14 Vladimir Guide!
Hello everyone! My name is Gray149, and I'm a Master Tier Vladimir One Trick. I reached Master in season 13 on EUW and then again in season 14 on both EUW and EUNE, playing mainly Vladimir.
I sincerely hope this guide helps you and leaves you with something new. It's my first time making a guide, and I'll try to update it when needed.
I also started streaming in recent months, so here is a link to my stream if you are interested: https://www.twitch.tv/gray_149
Feel free to join and ask anything League/Vlad-related. I will try my best to answer all of your questions as soon as I can.
With that being said, I want to say thank you to every single one of you who read the guide.
Vladimir Guide!Hello everyone! My name is Gray149, and I'm a Master Tier Vladimir One Trick. I reached Master in season 13 on EUW and then again in season 14 on both EUW and EUNE, playing mainly Vladimir.
I sincerely hope this guide helps you and leaves you with something new. It's my first time making a guide, and I'll try to update it when needed.
I also started streaming in recent months, so here is a link to my stream if you are interested: https://www.twitch.tv/gray_149
Feel free to join and ask anything League/Vlad-related. I will try my best to answer all of your questions as soon as I can.
With that being said, I want to say thank you to every single one of you who read the guide.
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[14.2+] Vladimir Season 14 Guide
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