The ULTIMATE VLADIMIR GUIDE SEASON 14 | BEST Builds & Runes | How to carry as Vladimir | S14 Split 1

[@exVengeance]

Thank you, i needed this upload. I feel like I've been playing very poorly and not scaling properly, a review of the basics by a much higher level player is what I needed!

[@Kyan100]

I'm glad to hear that, thanks for leaving a comment :)

[@exVengeance]

No problem! I was glad to see Irelia on the matchup list. My personal weakness is when a player takes a top laner mid, roles me pretty much every time. Feel free to use this for a video idea because I may not be the only one. And if I am the only one, I'll have to give the coaching a go when I'm in a place to do so (financially)@@Kyan100

[@infinitegaming2884]

Xerath and Vladimir are my top favorite mages in this game. Thank you for this guide brother. Very informative and entertaining at the same time.

[@alcatraz8694]

After seen this guide, I absolutly destroyed 3 games in a row... I still need a ton of learning BUT I literally changed the way I saw vlad, I am a big vampire fan but vlad was clunky and boring in my hands... I did not liked him for a big while... however, I decided to check how is played for people that actually knows how to play him, and oh boy! Probably my new main

[@Kyan100]

I'm glad to heart that and thank you for leaving this comment, I appreciate it :)!

[@normalPlayerSeverEarth]

This is one of the best vladimir guild I have ever seen, my gameplay have been improved since I watch this video, a lot of nice tips

[@doktormozg]

Love this champ - Vlad is an essential part of League, thanks for the guide man!

[@Kyan100]

I'm glad that you like the guide :), thanks for letting me know!

[@zotrio9802]

yooo this is an insane guide man tysm and keep up the good work!

[@Kyan100]

Thank you! I appreciate it a lot that you took some time out of your day to write this nice comment ;)!

[@johnsmoke1785]

Regarding Tank Vladimir, maybe try this: (my recent S14 ARAM tank build for Vladimir) Runes: Grasp o.t. Undying > Font of Life > Second Wind > Overgrowth > Taste of Blood > Ingenious Hunter Core Build: Heartsteel + Warmogs + Boots (of your choice; recommend MR + tenacity) Hybrid Items: Riftmaker + Rabadon's Full Tank Items: Unending Despair + Hollow Radiance Situational Items / Finisher: Abyssal Mask; Sundered Sky; Kaenic Rookern The Hybrid Build is an ultra late game build. Once completed it will have the most HP (due to the increased synergy in the build) and AP (easily over 500+). While the Hybrid build looks all great on paper, I still feel the Full Tank build is more solid and feels overall much stronger. The additional armor and mr are great with the insane high HP of the build and we add more item dmg sources which scale with our max/bonus HP. Together with W & E this adds to 6 sources of dmg that scale with our max/bonus HP (Heartsteel, Grasp, Unending Despair, Hollow Radiance). When this build reaches late game (boots + 4 items) it will melt most enemy teams by itself. Ingenious Hunter affects all item CDs which is really great. Be it for building up more stacks for Hearthsteel (and I believe the 3sec charge up time gets affected too, but not 100% sure on this), get more frequent heals from Unending Despair, Warmogs heal kicks in faster, Sundered Sky, Kaenic Rookern.. It's really broken for this build.

[@mocafrost]

Your guides are the truth. Thank you

[@Jus7here]

Thank you for the video. Keep up! I really appreciate this, I'm trying to push diamond for the first time and I needed to refresh my knowledge.

[@iknow427]

I have a problem playing Vlad but its very mechanical, to me at least. I find it insanely crazy (while using F for flash D for ghost) to do combos like E flash Q. It’s the E and flashing that my fingers struggle to get around. It messes me up while trying to outplay or punish opponents. Late game it’s abit less important but if I can use that advantage early game to become a mid game raid boss I sometimes have to just look at it and say, damn. I’m not a vlad main but I have recently become a big vlad enjoyer. Good work and thank you for the video.

[@Kyan100]

If you struggle with mechanics, practice tool is your best friend :)

[@benjaminghazi787]

Yeah it’s just such a weird combo because you have to hold e while flashing sometimes. It’s awkward

[@leosampaio668]

Just take E off quick cast, you can press it twice instead. I find that it makes it easier

[@Kyan100]

@@leosampaio668 Definitely do what works for you but objectively holding E is the quickest way to do it so you might as well put your time into learning it the right way immediately :)

[@jonathanwynne6925]

I haven't mained Vlad since season 3, but I'm picking him back up. Thank you.

[@williegrimaldi6208]

thank you man! very helpful, just got back playing and its all different now.

[@abdoalkhouly3869]

Thank you so much for that guide mate. i have been playing vladimir since 2019, But this season I feel like he lost many important items When I go rift maker and liandry , I feel like its not that good as the last seasons, Thats what I think Idk tbh But ay great work mate keep it up ❤

[@boltoms]

I still don't get how your abilities become empowered.. Like, how do you get empowered Q?

[@Kyan100]

You only have one ability that gets empowered, your Q. It's simple, When you Q a minion, champion or jungle monster you will gain 1 Q stack. If you Q again for a second time, you will get up to 2 stacks. Once you have 2 stacks you'll get an empowered Q (but only for a slight time so you need to hurry to use it)

[@Nikey782]

Thanks for the guide! :) I've been wanting to play Vlad for a while but it feels really strange to pick him up (to me at least). I'll give it another attempt though!

[@Kyan100]

Vlad can be a hard champ to master and even pick up because he's so gold reliant which makes him stand out from all other champions but he's turbo fun so definitely give him another try! I hope my guide can inspire you :).

[@leosampaio668]

Incredible guide, thank you!

[@Kyan100]

Thanks for letting me know :)!

[@iamstubit6969]

thanks for the guide, im a top main so im wondering what runes do you usually go for top?

[@Kyan100]

In toplane it's often hard to avoid fighting and even if you can, often it's even your best option to fight early on so that you can contest early wave prio so that they don't just shove the wave under your turret, let it bounce and then freeze on their side of the lane. So that's why I like to go aery scorch or conqueror with ghost ignite and prioritzing mobility and ability haste early on (ionian boots and cosmic drive). However, in matchups where you can easily get run down and where at some point you basically can't beat your opponent in the isolated 1v1 you can also consider going phase rush, think of matchups like nasus, rumble, tryndamere.

[@iamstubit6969]

@@Kyan100 thank you! Really appreciate the guide and the advice

[@PintorAustriaco-k4n]

great guide, thanks a lot my dude

[@oiexandrgalushchak8344]

Ty for guide, fellow Blood lord)

[@Kyan100]

Haha thank you for your nice comment :)

[@Lmaocario]

Only thing that im missing out are situational items. Like even if those full builds are overall good im pretty sure you could go for some situational variations, sadly im verry unconfident at variating by myself so that had helped me a lot. But overall this is an insane guide, thanks for you huge work.

[@Kyan100]

Thank you for your comment and your feedback, let me help you out :). Vladimir's situational items: 1. Zhonyas --> go this when you get a lot out of the active (i.e when enemy has khartus jungle & zed mid) --> you could also go this if enemy has a lot of AD damage in general 2. Banshee's Veil --> go this when enemy team has a lot of AP damage (shield is useful but not main reason to go this iterm). In general this is your MR item to go as not only does it give you MR but also a lot of DMG which is very important! 3. Spirit Visage --> when you both need MR and you have a lot of healing in your team (I rarely go this, but sometimes I do go it when for example enemy team has 3 AP champs and I have a soraka, Ivern, Karma, ... in my team). Big downside of this item is that it gives you 0 damage (your passive is irrelevant). 4. Cryptbloom --> I've become a big fan of this item, the amount of stats this item gives you is insane (super gold efficient so I build this almost always now instead of void staff unless enemy team has a lot of MR, than I'll go for void staff). 5. Rocketbelt --> U absolutely need this when the enemy team has a lot of ranged champions for example (xerath mid, kindred jungle, ezreal adc, brand support) 6. Morellonomicon Against enemies who can heal a lot (aatrox, sylas, ....). This used to be bad on Vlad but nowadays it's so cheap that it's actually pretty good. 7. Tank items like frozen heart, abyssal mask, ... --> I don't like these item to be honest, they make vlad feel kinda useless in late and they require you to have a lead, which sucks when you play an ultrascaling champ. (However they are viable but I personally don't recommend going tank items, especially not in low elo). Hope this helps you out a bit :).

[@Lmaocario]

@@Kyan100 OH great, thanks a lot!

[@Kyan100]

@@Lmaocario My pleasure, if you have any other questions, I'm here :).

[@ExOoFulL]

Hello Kyan you have nice instructional video about Vlad. Can you recommend what to do with Vlad in this new patch where ghost got nerfed?

[@NaiyoGames]

Huge guide! Thanks a lot!!

[@blank3764]

How do you deal with control mages who builds arch angel? With my experience, champs like hwei and orianna that plays arch angel rush are quite tanky to deal with and the one shot build doesnt do enough damage against them. Would u buy proto/one shot in that case? Or just full scaling with the standard build?

[@Kyan100]

In those matchups where I don't have lots of kill pressure early on, I would indeed go ionians into riftmaker and go a more scaling setup

[@getadruuu]

Great Video thanks man. But why does nobody pick Arcane Comet instead of Aery? Doenst Arcane Comet deal more damage?

[@Kyan100]

Aery scorch does a lot more damage than comet and it's a lot more reliable

[@DDG_Streaker]

As a Vladimir top main. Do you feel comfortable in making top Vladimir content and perhaps coach for toplane? Great guide btw!!

[@Kyan100]

Hi there, I most definitely feel confident in playing vladimir top and making content + coaching for vladimir top :).

[@DDG_Streaker]

Sounds amazing. Might look into some coaching then 🙏

[@Kyan100]

@@DDG_Streaker I'm looking forward to it :)!

[@valkyrrrr]

Is stormsurge still optimal after the nerfs I thi k we replace it with rocketbelt

[@Kyan100]

I'm still enjoying it, rocketbelt is so bad right now, I wouldn't even call it an item :)

[@valkyrrrr]

@@Kyan100 I see

[@elite.network]

Much love man, Diamond 1 here, OTP Vlad, nice video

[@Kyan100]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for leaving a comment :)

[@ettoreferri237]

i needed 2 days to finish the video, i have taken notes, made collages with screenshots, made sets of runes in the game, i got called a legend at the end of the video but man why do u hate cafe cutie vladimir i literally started playing him bc of that skin lmaoooo, anyways great video i loved it

[@gnrlnordiin2128]

wonderful guide

[@Kyan100]

I'm really happy to hear that you like the guide, thank you for letting me know!

[@Light-Was-Taken]

I think its funny that many take matchups in account but they dont know why the matchup is hard😂

[@FiddyWoow]

I am just wondering, isn't PTA viable on Vladmir because of the new PTA targeting all champions?

[@Kyan100]

No cause Vladimir likes to burst champions and not stay long in fights + he mainly uses abilities and not AA's (especially in teamfights)

[@FiddyWoow]

@@Kyan100 thank you for your time to answer!

[@DharmaPunk111]

Is he exclusively mid now or is he still viable top?

[@Kyan100]

Still viable top :)

[@specter290]

Do you hold e or tap it and tap it again to discharge

[@Kyan100]

Depends on the situation, early in the lane you don't want to fully charge E if you're also tanking minions at the same time or when you're already low hp. If you're still healthy you can use a fully charged E on the wave for contesting wave prio or on your opponent for a nice fully charged E + red Q combo. During the second part of this guide (the second video), this will become more clear :)

[@specter290]

@@Kyan100im talking about your E keybind. I know some people just use E as a toggle and press E again to discharge. Or do you manually hold and let go of E

[@Kyan100]

@@specter290 Oh okay haha, I manually hold E and then release E by letting go of my E key

[@noahte]

I found switching to tap and tap again e makes it easier to do burst combos, esp w flash since you don’t have to waste a finger holding down e

[@Kyan100]

@@noahte I honestly have never even thought about it but I've also never had any issues with it anyway so I'll stick with my current setup but if I ever were to deem it necessary to change, I will so anyway, thanks for the tip :)

[@MrUratox]

I did Not fully understand why i should Not Release my e with using q. Is the damage lowered If i do this?

[@Kyan100]

Damage is the same but it's delayed and feels extremely clunky and not smooth at all

[@Gloriankithsanus]

Why is he going frozen heart if he doesn't get any mana from it? Does that make any sense at all? 2500g is pretty cheap, but that seems non-sensical to me

[@Kyan100]

Even without the mana, the stats you get for that price are insane so it's a great option to buy it early so that you're immediately very strong.

[@Gloriankithsanus]

@@Kyan100 Gonna be hard to convince other people, but I trust you 😂

[@fellyxrixhes]

IS that liss torment or not and is that death capp or crown?

[@yasrrrrx]

i dont usually comment, but I just finished the entire video and queued for a solo flex, I got 22 kills and their nexus in 28 mins xD

[@Gloriankithsanus]

If I focus on farming, I don't do any damage and don't participate in a lot of fighting. In fighting I am usually not performing well, cuz no items. I can't seem to balance these 2 things for shit. I can't even get 8cs per minute. Cuz if I farm only, the lane is unplayable. If I play for prio, I suffer on last hitting. Which is counter-intuitive, because I play for prio to get myself into position for fighting, which I don't have the money for items for. It's so easy to be bad at this champion.

[@Kyan100]

Well what you mention here is indeed the hardest thing to do on Vladimir but people typically struggle at this due to lack of fundamentals. In order for me to help you out I would have to take a look at your gameplay. If that's something you want, feel free to book me as your coach and I'll be able to solve your problems :).

[@igamingpublic]

i saw one of the play by twtich clip. his W has 3 seconds cool down

[@lukamilojevic8202]

Tnx man for guide.

[@Kyan100]

My pleasure, thanks for the support :)

[@rlibtech1080]

Does overgrowth grant vlad passive AP?

[@Kyan100]

Yes :)

[@mr.joesterr5359]

Yes but its so negligible. you are getting maybe 5 late game.

[@ethanmanautines9173]

insane tks

[@charmingfox2603]

Is kyan better than elite500

[@Kyan100]

I am most definitely not, doesn't even come close :). Elite is a multi-season challenger who also has many more games on vlad then me. I do belong to the best vlad players in the world but having only peaked grandmaster I could never call myself the best, which Elite is :).

[@jormae3422]

The old tides of blood was so much better this one hits so inconsistent and the charge time and life drain is lunatic.

[@frailty666]

good job i like you for this

[@fastbird7893]

bruh.. I main vlad with cafe cutie skin chroma purple :(

[@Kyan100]

Stop maining him, he's not for you. Nah kidding, or am I? :O

[@fastbird7893]

@@Kyan100 hahaha I wonder why Ive been looking for guides… maybe you’re right lolll

[@Kyan100]

@@fastbird7893 Hahaha :).

[@mr.joesterr5359]

gross

[@xxlemmonxx68]

you said when to pick vladimir?xd

[@Kyan100]

@@xxlemmonxx68 What do you mean?

[@xxlemmonxx68]

@@Kyan100 like, i pick zde when there is squishy ones, or swain when theyre tankys

[@Kyan100]

@@xxlemmonxx68 I believe you can play vladimir in every game and blind pick him untill Master elo and perhaps higher. That being said, Vladimir works best in teams where you have some engage like an amumu jungle because your champ is amazing at follow-up engage. Additionally, the only thing that can stop Vladimir in the mid and lategame teamfights is lots of CC, so Vladimir is not ideal vs heavy CC comps. As for the lane, Vladimir is also not ideal to pick into control mages like Syndra & Orianna as they easily outpoke you (you can find my lane matchup tierlist guide for Vladimir on my channel)

[@xxlemmonxx68]

@@Kyan100 thx man

[@lordsaviorswarmthatwalks3385]

Unfliching does not provide tenacity anymore so it's turbo trash

[@Kyan100]

Yeah indeed, at this moment is not good anymore for vlad.

[@whitelotusrises3204]

you should have used gameplay to show examples of your constitutional amendments

[@fluox_etina2201]

Is rylai usefull on vlad?

[@Kyan100]

Nope

[@mr.joesterr5359]

it really wasnt too useful as vlad E and W both slow already