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Help me with S6 Vladimir build?

ShadowBash·11/18/2015, 3:08:55 PM·3 votes·7,870 views

Vladimir is my main. In season 5 I felt really good on him and I liked my build. With CDR Boots, WOTA, and my runes and masteries, I'd hit almost 40% CDR in just 2 items. I feel CDR is extremely important on Vladimir. However, with the nerf to CDR boots, the mastery changes, and the item changes in general, I'm finding that the same build path I used to use in S5 is barely even getting to 28% CDR let alone 40. In my recent games I've felt underwhelming and much weaker than in my S5 games. Can anyone else relate to this and help me out? I just feel that since S6 Vladimir (or maybe it's me) just does much less damage than he used to, and it's upsetting to see a champ you used to crush with suddenly feel left behind. I've tried 18/12 and 18/0/12 and have not liked the results. Deathfire Touch doesn't even feel good on him. I'm going to attempt to try 12/18 for the CDR mastery and the Thunder Keystone (yes I know it's currently bugged) to see if that helps. But do any Vladimir mains have any advice on runes, masteries, or new builds?

10 Comments

EndlessSorcerer11/18/2015, 3:23:46 PM4 votes

I think the biggest issue Vladimir is facing right now is how quickly games can snowball out-of-control. He's a champion who requires a significant amount of farm and items to perform efficiently and many games just aren't lasting long enough for him to reach that point.

Though, I think 18/0/12 will probably work the best on him. Though 18/12/0 is a good choice too.

If you need CDR, you can get near the cap with Will of the Ancients, Spirit Visage, and Scaling CDR Glyphs. It doesn't spike anywhere near as early as Ionian Boots and Will of the Ancients used to though.

Korillo11/18/2015, 3:50:33 PM3 votes

Build doesn't really change. I had to add a 5% scaling CDR quint to my runes though along with my 10% scaling CDR blues.

Runes Quints - 2 Runespeed, 1 scaling CDR Blues - Scaling CDR Yellow - Scaling HP Red - Magic Pen

Masteries - 12/18/0 (Thunderlord keystone or w/e its called), although 0/18/12 is doable as well depends who your opponent is and whether or not you are going to build Spirit Visage (make sure you get the 5% increase to CDR)

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You can get the Spirit Visage if you are against 2+ AP champions, or want to build a little tankier.

With the scaling CDR runes, 5% CDR Mastery, book & cdr boots you have 45% CDR. The book and boots are cheap. With those 2 items + your runes you should already be sitting at about 32% CDR (depends what level you are when you finish the items).

Broddiccus11/18/2015, 3:45:27 PM2 votes

i feel the issue with vlad is he doesn't add anything to the team, he has no CC as a tank which is a pretty big deficit, dooming him to have to be a dive tank and offering no peel, plus ap top laners often times throw off your team composition, i'd consider him a fringe pick at best.