Vladimir is currently one of the most powerful champions for mid and top lane. He is distinguished by late-game scaling and the ability to hyper-heal himself.
To excel at this champion, today we are gonna take a look at his build with the highest possible win rate!
Best Vladimir Items Season 14
Cosmic Drive
A really nice first item for Vladimir in the early game is Cosmic Drive. It will give us massive amounts of HP, ability haste, and ability power. On top of these additions, Cosmic Drive will also give us a 4% movement speed boost, which will make us more mobile and enable easier trading. The item will also give us additional movement speed each time we deal damage to enemies.
Rabadon’s Deathcap
The more AP we get, the more healing we will obtain using our Q. Since Q is one of our main abilities, we will want to generate as much power for it as possible. Therefore, the second item we will be building is Rabadon’s Deathcap. The item will give us a massive boost of 130 flat AP, as well as a 30% increase on our total AP. Building this item early will ensure we start benefiting from the 30% passive as soon as possible.
Mejai’s Soulstealer
Many readers will probably be familiar with this item, but we will go over its effects just in case. Mejai’s Soulstealer is a stacking item that increases its AP for each gained stack. The stacks are granted each time we kill an enemy, and a big chunk of stacks is lost each time we die.
This item is particularly great on Vladimir, as the champion is really hard to die with. This means that our stacks will be relatively safe, at least more safe than they would if we were playing a different champion. The high number of stacks will allow us to use the maximal ability of this item, making it quite a valuable purchase.
Zhonia’s Hourglass
Zhonia’s is a perfect item for Vladimir. Its “Statis” passive will enable us to freeze ourselves for 2 seconds, rendering us completely untargetable. This duration is sufficient for allowing us to get our spells of cooldown, and escape by using Q, and W, or give our allies the time to come and save us. Zhonia’s can be built as a 4th item, but if the enemies are already struggling to kill you, you might opt to build it as 5th item instead.
Void Staff
Finally, our last item will be the Void Staff. This item will increase the overall efficiency of our full AP build, as it will put a 40% magic penetration increase on our whole AP. The item is a pretty great buy for any AP heavy build, and it significantly increases our damage, especially towards enemies stacking magic resist.
Boots
In the early game, the most viable boots will be the Ionian Boots of Lucidity, these will enable us to generate more damage and healing by lowering our essential cooldowns such as our Q. In the late game, we can swap these out for Sorcerer Shoes, and enjoy the magic penetration benefits of these boots.
Best Runes for Vladimir
- Summon Aery
- Nimbus Cloak
- Transcendence
- Scorch
- Legend: Haste
- Last Stand
Final Thoughts
Vladimir is an amazing flex pick that can be played in multiple roles. He is a high-scaling hyper-carry that should be played full AP. The highest win rate build is the one outlined in this article, coupled with Summon Aery keystone. This build should be good in pretty much every game!