Ask about Vladimir

In general, building ap is better because it not only allows you to carry harder, the ap->hp part is passive is more efficient than hp->ap part of the passive, considering you can boost ap more with masteries and deathcap.

The most suggested build is this. , or , and choose from , , , .

I think Malphite is the easiest to lane against. After the grail nerf, there is literally no way he can kill vladimir without jungler's gank.

Tryndamere is the most annoying to lane against. It is not that it is impossible to win against him in lane, but that you have to win against him in order to stop his mid-late game split pushing. This is very difficult to achieve because tryndamere is still strong in early levels compared to vladimir, requiring careful lane management and jungler's help. Against tryndamere, get 14/15/1 mastery (you need armor and crit dmg reduction and slow resist), get flash exhaust, and level e first at lvl 1. Push as hard as you can while maintaining more than 650 range from tryndamere. If you manage to stack more than 5 ranged minion, you can now fight tryndamere if he dashes in. After you have some minions, push as slowly as possible that you hit level 3 before the wave reaches turret. Have your jungler come to top no matter the situation. It is very crucial because early jungle intervention either make your team lose or win. Either dive tryndamere under turret with huge minion wave or if enemy jungler shows up, fight 2v2. Because of the huge minion wave, it is likely that you win. Against tryndamere, I usually build differently to stop his split pushing. (sell later), either or and

It is likely that you are not used to the lane management which is must required to play vladimir good. Try to keep more than 4 of enemy ranged minions alive in front of your tower (like in between your tower and the first side bush). It will allow you to freeze your lane and prevent enemy laner from dashing in easily. Against laner whose burst is very strong (most likely ), try to get flash heal. Against difficult mages with AoE dmg, get 14/15/1 mastery with magic resist and AoE dmg resist. If enemy team has high burst, rush defensive items like spirit visage. Most importantly, don't be greedy and if you think enemy laner can just kill you in next minute, give up cs and recall as soon as possible. a kill worth more than 20 cs.

Currently he could be first picked but before doing that, you have to know how to lane against some difficult matchups like . The worst counter to vladimir is not in lane, but in teamfight. While vladimir can lane and farm against pretty much every matchup, if enemy composition is built towards split pushing, early aggression (lvl 4 counterjungling, roaming etc), or has instant hard CC ( with burst, or enemy carries have longer range than vlad with support to help kiting , vladimir can do very little in the teamfight.

These are ways to withstand such situations like skipping WoA to increase dueling power to stop split pushing (used to build DFG for CDR instead), building tank instead to survive the burst combo ( ), and getting flash+ghost+distortion to not get kited.

I pretty much got to diamond only playing him so good luck!