Vladimir Counter: Vladimir is a mage who builds health to do damage. He has a huge amount of survivability and thrives in sustained fights. Vladimir is weak early as Tides of Blood costs HP and Transfusion has a long CD. Don’t be afraid to invest in early defensive items to survive your lane.Vladimir lacks CC, so Rylai’s Crystal Scepter is needed to stay in range. If he isn’t dealt with in team fights, his sustained damage becomes unbearable.

Patch:
8.17

Win Rate:
49.10%

Play Rate:
2.09%

Ban Rate:
1.41%

Win Rate by
Game Length:
55.00%

Tips To Deal With Vladimir Counter 8.19

1)Vladimir’s resource bar below his health bar indicates the cooldown on his Q/Transfusion. When it is halfway, he can cast it, as well as when it is full, but he gets to cast an empowered one which heals him for an increased amount as well. So look to avoid being hit by the empowered Q/Transfusion by staying away from it’s range for the short duration where you can see the resource bar run empty rapidly.

2) If Vladimir happens to use his E/Tides of Blood on minions, look to engage on a short trade immediately because it deals a good amount of damage which will be unavailable to him while you trade since it will be on cooldown.

3) Vladimir has a lot of healing and sustain in his kit, picking up an item that grants the healing reduction Grievous Wounds(reduces all healing by 40%) like Morellonomicon for magic damage dealers and Executioner’s Culling for physical damage dealers.

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4) Vladimir’s W/Sanguine Pool provides him with a lot of safety since it lets him become untargetable as well as escape while slowing the enemy in the area of the pool. It has a moderately long cooldown though, so look to engage on him if he gets too close while it is down or try to set up a gank while it is down.

5) Vladimir’s wave-clear is sub-optimal early into the game so look to shove the minions into his tower since it is extremely hard for him to kill his minions under his own tower and will guarantee a good creep score lead as well as a good gold lead.