Vladimir·Bot Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Vladimir Bot build, you should take Flash and Ghost as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Phase Rush as your keystone, followed by Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence and Gathering Storm in the primary tree, as well as Cosmic Insight and Magical Footwear in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Ability Haste in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Riftmaker as your first item, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity and Liandry's Torment. For your last 3 items, you should build Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame and finish with Cryptbloom. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - E - W. Right now, this build has 45.1% winrate over 142 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Ghost as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Phase Rush as your keystone, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence and Gathering Storm in the primary tree, and Magical Footwear with Cosmic Insight in the secondary tree, as well as Ability Haste, Move Speed, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Cosmic Drive as your first item, then Boots of Swiftness as a second item and Rabadon's Deathcap as a third item. You want to finish the build with Cryptbloom, Riftmaker and Zhonya's Hourglass. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - E - W. This build is currently sitting at a 48.0% win rate across 50 matches played.

Situational Vladimir Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Vladimir build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.