For those of you that play Vlad, stop focusing on health items.
AP helps you sustain better, have more presense, and gives you some HP.
You can survive much better off of
+
+
or
than you can off of
+
+
.
Not only that, but SotA is being removed, and
is most likely getting gutted. That, and his E HP ratio was cut by 40% compared to before, while AP ratios on Q and E were buffed.
Stop running
when running
does so much more for you. You heal more, you're just about as tanky (you have more MR from abyssal and similar HP due to AP scaling), and you hurt way, way more. Not to mention having access to Rylai's earlier.
If you don't see that full AP is the optimal way to play Vlad now, you're going to have a really bad time with the removal of SotA and incoming heavy nerfs to Protobelt.
And seriously, stop running DFT and TLD too...Stormraider's Surge actually lets you teamfight/skirmish successfully much earlier, which is infinitely more valuable. TLD and DFT barely add to your overall damage.
every time.
HIS E HAS A 1.0 AP RATIO ON A 3 SECOND CD NOW, FFS. WHY WOULD YOU BUILD HIM TANKY WHEN IT BARELY AFFECTS HIS TANKINESS?