Mid

Vladimir Build 26.22

Vladimir asks you to survive a rough start to cash in a monster finish. He converts health and power into each other, so building him tanky also makes him hit harder, and Sanguine Pool lets him melt out of any lock-on the instant a fight goes wrong. A fine but unremarkable pick at 50.2% and on the way up this patch, but the arc is always the same: early he is a punching bag, late he is a backline diver nothing can pin down. Ult first to paint the whole enemy team, then pool through the follow-up.

#46 of 97 mid this patch · 1.2k games

Win rate50.2%+0.1Games1.2kPick rate3.1%Ban rate3.5%Last 8 patches+0.1 since 26.15Damage profilei

AP 95%AD 3%True 2%DifficultyiHighPunishes misplays

The 10-second answer standard · 50.2% WR

Spellslinger's Shoes SkillsQ›E›W Runes

Shards

ClassicModernARAM Counter

173 champions

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LoL ClassicSee how Vladimir was built in the classic eraVladimir Classic Build

When Is Vladimir Strongest?

Power keeps building past the item spike into the second half, and games at this rank average around 28 minutes. Vladimir trades a weak start for a monstrous mid game, so the plan is to survive lane and reach the point where his drain outheals everything. Group for the plague, dive the backline, and let sustained healing win the long fight.

Game timeline · Vladimir drag or hover to scrub · space plays · ←/→ step

your power minute by minute · gold = item spikes · small = components · dashed = objectives

Camps1:30Drake / Grubs5:00Herald14:00Baron20:00Avg end27:37

Ambush zone8:06–9:36 Power spike 26:56

17:26

12:42

20:10

26:56

0:00 10:00 20:00 30:00 40:00

At 12:00

Power 53/100 · Even

Core 0/3 items

Gold ~5.2k

Phase Lvl-6 window

Next spike Spellslinger's Shoes · 17:26

Vladimir Item Build

Vladimir is a health-stacking drain mage whose passive turns bonus health into power and power back into more health. The build leans on ability power and health together so his transfusions heal for a fortune and his teamfight plague lands with maximum reach and burst.

Standard loadout · Vladimir The consensus path — reliable spikes, no dead time.

Starting items 500g

Doran's Ring×1

Health Potion×2 Core path · click an item for its recipe ›› Boots

Spellslinger's Shoes69% · 53.8%

Crimson Lucidity31% · 45.3%

Situational items pick an opponent in the bar above — the right swaps light up

vs AD threatsPhysical threats spike with lethality — armor answers buy the mid game back.Z

Zhonya's Hourglass18458.2%

vs stacked resistsWhen resists stack, penetration beats raw stats — swap a damage slot.S

Shadowflame13048.5%C

Cryptbloom1936.8%

vision controlFights are decided a minute earlier by the team that sees first.F

Farsight Alteration48453.7%O

Oracle Lens12648.4%S

Stealth Ward62547.8%

Best Vladimir Runes

Stormraider's Surge is the go-to, and it turns his burst into mobility, which is exactly what an immobile diver needs. Once Hemoplague and his pool damage tag the enemy, the speed lets him slide out before the counter comes. It patches his single biggest weakness, getting in and back out. Everything else just feeds sustain and AP.

The pre-game page Stormraider's Surge · Sorcery + Precision · keystone + 5 runes + 3 shards

Sorcery Primary

Stormraider's SurgeDealing 25% of a champion's maximum health grants a burst of MS and Slow Resist.

Nimbus Cloak96% · 50.4%

Transcendence95% · 50.2%

Gathering Storm83% · 48.7%

Keystone plus three minors from Sorcery, two from Precision, then three shards — no runebook, no masteries.

Precision Secondary

Last Stand68% · 49.2%

Legend: Haste92% · 50.3%

Stat shards Offense

Ability Haste+8 Ability Haste

Flex

Adaptive Force+9 Adaptive Force

Defense

Health Scaling+10–180 Health (by level)

Shards give +8Ability Haste+9Adaptive Force+10–180 Health (by level)

Build toward Stormsurge into Liandry's Torment and lean into the scaling. You can lose lane and still take over once the items come online. Liandry's Torment comes online at about the 20-minute mark, and around then his pool-and-dive pattern starts winning fights outright instead of just surviving them. Every item makes him tankier and higher-damage at once, so there is no wrong time to keep stacking.

Vladimir Skill Order

Hemoplague lands at 6 into a lane holding three points of Transfusion and one each of Tides of Blood and Sanguine Pool; by the 11 rank Transfusion is finished and Tides of Blood is halfway up its own run to 13.

Skill order · Vladimir R at 6 / 11 / 16 — always

PriorityR

R›Q

Q›E

E›W

WMax Q first; E at level 2.

Lv 123456789101112131415161718

Q14579max 9

W314151718max 18

E28101213max 13

R61116max 16

Vladimir Abilities

His two damage spells trade in opposite currencies. Transfusion steals life from a single target and hits far harder once his resource bar fills, while Tides of Blood costs him his own health to charge a wider burst that enemy bodies can block outright.

Abilities · Vladimirpatch 26.22 base numbers · click an ability · all ranks shown

Crimson PactPassiveP

TransfusionMax 1stQ

Sanguine PoolMax lastW

Tides of BloodMax 2ndE

HemoplagueUltRRank-up levels here match the skill order below.

TransfusionMagic damageMax 1stStatLV 1rank 1LV 4rank 2LV 5rank 3LV 7rank 4LV 9MAXDamage+20 per rank+60% APlv 180lv 4100lv 5120lv 7140lv 9160Cooldown-1.1 per ranklv 19slv 47.9slv 56.8slv 75.7slv 94.6s

Vladimir Base Stats

Base stats · VladimirPatch 26.22

Base statslevel 1 · +per levelAD55+3AS0.658+2%MS330Range450HP600+110HP57+0.6Armor24+4.5MR30+1.3MP2MP50

Vladimir Matchups

Vladimir has a rough early laning phase and hates poke mages and ranged bullies who chip him down before his sustain snowballs. Once he stacks health, all-in bruisers and divers who commit onto his pool waste their cooldowns, and comps that group for his plague melt.

Lane matchups · Vladimir click any opponent to retune the console

Hardest lanes · click to tune

Best hunting

How to lane vs assassins 01Rush armor or magic resist matching their damage; sustain pressure with Transfusion.02Save Sanguine Pool for their all-in; become untargetable to dodge the burst.03Ward flanks and track their roams; shove before they collapse on sidelanes. Win rate by game lengthVladimir overall · all matchupsUnder 20 min50.6%20–28 min46.8%28–35 min53.5%Over 35 min50.9%

Early on, Talon, Aurelion Sol, and Lux can bully him before his Transfusion sustain and items exist, so play for farm and do not get greedy in a losing trade. Pool is your reset button when they all-in. He turns the tables on Katarina, Xerath, and Ryze, punishing anyone who cannot deal with a healing dive once the game gets long.

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