Ranked by how close their five-axis heatmap looks — role-agnostic.
Where it thrives (5-comp fit)
Attackworkable · 50%
Siegeworkable · 40%
Splitworkable · 30%
Vladimir can hold up an Attack plan — it pours teamfight damage on once the engage lands — but a Attack-first shell gets more out of it (Attack 5/10 vs Attack 5/10).
Kit quirks
Sanguine Pool (W) makes him untargetable and ghosted for 2s while dealing HP-scaled damage and healing (reduced to 18% effectiveness vs minions)
Crimson Pact passive converts bonus health into AP and AP into bonus health, so building tanky items also raises his damage output
Hemoplague (R) marks enemies to take +10% damage from all sources for 4s, then detonates for damage and heals Vladimir per champion hit
Transfusion (Q)'s empowered healing burst (at 2 Crimson Rush stacks) is cut to 35% effectiveness against minions specifically — the base heal and jungle-monster healing aren't reduced at all.
How Vladimir actually performs in ranked solo queue · 192 weighted games