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Vladimir Build

Mid Tier 1

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 29,309 gamesUpdated

51.4%win rate1.3%pick2.3%ban

Who counters Vladimir

Every Mid matchup for Vladimir, ranked →

How to build Vladimir

Spellslinger's Shoes→Stormsurge→Rabadon's Deathcap→Riftmaker

Spellslinger's Shoes → Stormsurge → Rabadon's Deathcap → Riftmaker

60.2% win rate 12% of games 1,975 games
RunesSorceryStormraider's SurgeNimbus CloakTranscendenceGathering StormPrecisionLast StandLegend: Haste43% of games
SpellsFlashGhostFlash + Ghost78%
Skills
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Transfusion
14578
Sanguine Pool
314151718
Tides of Blood
29101213
Hemoplague
61116
StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Vladimir build →
51.4%win rate
Patch 26.20: 51.1% over 71,231 gamesPatch 26.21: 51.4% over 29,309 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
51.8%at Emerald+
1.3%pick rate
2.3%ban rate
▲ Upwas Tier 2 last patch
47.3%under 22 min
55.2%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Vladimir champion portraitM VladimirvsYasuo champion portraitM Yasuo
10 / 2 / 9

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Stormsurge→Rabadon's Deathcap

Spells & runes

FlashGhost|

Skills

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Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Vladimir champion portraitM VladimirvsYasuo champion portraitM Yasuo
6 / 6 / 5

Build

Crimson Lucidity|Stormsurge→Rabadon's Deathcap→Zhonya's Hourglass

Spells & runes

GhostFlash|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEWWR
Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Vladimir champion portraitM VladimirvsQiyana champion portraitM Qiyana
7 / 7 / 4

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Stormsurge→Shadowflame

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

QEQWQRQEQEEERW

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 51.6% win rate · 43% of games · 12,332 games
SorceryStormraider's SurgeNimbus CloakTranscendenceGathering Storm
PrecisionLast StandLegend: Haste
Shards Ability Haste · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 50.5% win rate · 14% of games · 3,855 games
SorceryDeathfire TouchNimbus CloakTranscendenceGathering Storm
PrecisionLast StandLegend: Haste
Shards Ability Haste · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashGhostFlash + Ghost78%51.5%23,221 games
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite18%52.1%5,465 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Spellslinger's Shoes57%Crimson Lucidity32%Swiftmarch7%
Spellslinger's Shoes most often · 54.0% win rate

Vladimir build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Stormsurge1st
  2. Rabadon's Deathcap2nd
  3. Riftmaker3rd
4% of games that reach a third item take this path63.9% win rate743 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Vladimir →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 29,482 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Spellslinger's ShoesSpellslinger's Shoes
56% · 54.1% win rate
Crimson LucidityCrimson Lucidity
32% · 49.0% win rate
SwiftmarchSwiftmarch
7% · 53.7% win rate
Chainlaced CrushersChainlaced Crushers
2% · 47.6% win rate
BootsBoots
1% · 20.5% win rate
Immortal PathImmortal Path
1% · 49.4% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Stormsurge+Spellslinger's Shoes5% of games · 38.5% win rate · 1,500 games
  2. Stormsurge›Rabadon's Deathcap+Spellslinger's Shoes5% of games · 53.7% win rate · 1,481 games
  3. Stormsurge›Liandry's Torment+Spellslinger's Shoes2% of games · 45.6% win rate · 724 games
  4. Rabadon's Deathcap›Stormsurge+Spellslinger's Shoes2% of games · 47.0% win rate · 687 games
  5. Stormsurge›Rabadon's Deathcap+Crimson Lucidity2% of games · 44.8% win rate · 645 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Vladimir against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Vladimir's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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