Vladimir

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Comp identity — Bot / Mid / Top

Leans Attack — its strongest of the five comp axes.

Plays like — nearest pentagon

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 · 89 weighted games

Solo queue strength

Mid52% WR · 54.1 games
Top52% WR · 23.2 games
Bot48% WR · 12.0 games

Strongest duos

Best matchups

No favored matchups recorded.

Hardest matchups

No losing matchups recorded.

Champion reference

Base stats and every ability with its per-rank values and ratios. Search all champions →

Vladimir — The Crimson Reaper

Class: Battlemage
Resource: Crimson Rush
Range type: Ranged
Adaptive type: Magic
Positions: Middle
Released: 2010-07-27 (V1.0.0.97)
Last changed: V26.17
Price: 1,575 BE · 790 RP

Damage

Toughness

Control

Mobility

Utility

Difficulty

Base stats

Stat	Base	Per level	Level 18
Health	600	+110	2470
Health regen (per 5s)	7	+0.6	17.2
Crimson Rush	2	—	2
Crimson Rush regen (per 5s)	0	—	0
Armor	24	+4.5	100.5
Magic resist	30	+1.3	52.1
Attack damage	55	+3	106
Attack speed	0.658	+2%	0.882
Attack speed ratio	0.658
Attack range	450
Movement speed	330

Level 18 uses League's growth curve (base + 17 × per-level); attack speed grows as bonus % scaled by the attack speed ratio.

Advanced stats & game-mode balance

Acquisition radius: 600
Selection height: 183.33
Selection radius: 120
Pathing radius: 35
Attack cast time (s): 0.3
Attack total time (s): 1.52
Attack delay offset: -0.0721
Basic attack missile speed: 1600

ARAM: damage dealt ×1 · damage taken ×1 · healing ×1

URF: damage dealt ×0.92 · damage taken ×1.05 · healing ×1.2

Abilities

Passive

Crimson Pact

Innate: Vladimir gains (3.333% bonus health) as ability power and (160% AP) as bonus health. These two bonuses do not stack with each other.

Targeting input: PassiveAffects: Self

Notes (5)

Crimson Pact only affects Vladimir's maximum health and will not increase Vladimir's current health to prevent Vladimir from restoring health whenever his ability power fluctuates.
The only exception is purchasing applicable items while inside the fountain, which will restore health equal to the bonus gained.
Vladimir's current health can decrease to match his maximum health if Crimson Pact's bonus health is lost.
Crimson Pact's bonus ability power stacks multiplicatively with other sources of % ability power but its bonus health stacks additively with other sources of bonus health. With Rabadon's Deathcap's Magical Opus, the total is (30% AP + 4.3329% bonus health) bonus ability power and (208% AP + 1.59984% bonus health) bonus health.
Crimson Pact and Riftmaker's Void Infusion create a recursive stat loop.

Transfusion

Cooldown: 9 / 7.9 / 6.8 / 5.7 / 4.6Cast time: 0.25Target range: 600

Active: Vladimir drains blood from the target enemy, dealing magic damage and healing himself. He then generates 1 point of Crimson Rush over the cooldown.

Magic Damage: 80 / 100 / 120 / 140 / 160 (+ 60% AP)
Heal: 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 (+ 35% AP)

At 2 points of Crimson Rush, Vladimir surges, gaining 10% / 20% / 30% / 40% (based on level) bonus movement speed decaying over 0.5 seconds while the Crimson Rush depletes over 2.5 seconds. Crimson Rush depletes 75% slower during Sanguine Pool, Tides of Blood, or stasis.

Casting Transfusion during the surge consumes all Crimson Rush to deal 85% increased damage and heal Vladimir for an additional 30 – 220 (based on level) (+ 5% (+ 4% per 100 AP) of his missing health). The additional healing is reduced to「 35% 」「 10.5 – 77 (based on level) (+ 1.75% (+ 1.4% per 100 AP) of his missing health) 」against minions.

Increased Damage: 148 / 185 / 222 / 259 / 296 (+ 111% AP)

Targeting input: UnitTarget out-of-range override: Walk in range of the target unit to castAffects: Self, EnemiesDamage type: Ability damageDamage sub-types: MagicMinion Aggro: DrawnSpell shield: BlockedProjectile: Not Blocked

Notes (10)

Even though the healing effect is visualized as a projectile, the healing itself triggers as soon as the cast time completes.
Vladimir's resource bar indicates his current Crimson Rush and changes colors depending on the charge-up stage of his surge.
White while generating the first stack and while at 1 stack (there is no time-out period).
Orange while generating the second stack.
Red while he is surging (Crimson Rush will deplete over 2.5 seconds once triggered).
Each stack generates over-time (Transfusion's cooldown).
Vladimir can cast Sanguine Pool and Hemoplague during Transfusion's cast time.
The Crimson Rush depletes normally while under resurrection effects.
Transfusion's cast is special cased to not be cancelled if the target becomes untargetable, dies, or is too far away or no longer in sight during the cast time.
If the target is untargetable by the time the cast completes, however, Tranfusion will not deal them damage but still grant Vladimir the healing.

Map-specific differences (2)

Cooldown changed to 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 seconds.
Heal AP ratio changed to 20% AP.

Transfusion

Cooldown: 9 / 7.9 / 6.8 / 5.7 / 4.6Cast time: 0.25Target range: 600

Active: Vladimir drains blood from the target enemy, dealing magic damage and healing himself. He then generates 1 point of Crimson Rush over the cooldown.

Magic Damage: 80 / 100 / 120 / 140 / 160 (+ 60% AP)
Heal: 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 (+ 35% AP)

Increased Damage: 148 / 185 / 222 / 259 / 296 (+ 111% AP)

Notes (10)

Even though the healing effect is visualized as a projectile, the healing itself triggers as soon as the cast time completes.
Vladimir's resource bar indicates his current Crimson Rush and changes colors depending on the charge-up stage of his surge.
White while generating the first stack and while at 1 stack (there is no time-out period).
Orange while generating the second stack.
Red while he is surging (Crimson Rush will deplete over 2.5 seconds once triggered).
Each stack generates over-time (Transfusion's cooldown).
Vladimir can cast Sanguine Pool and Hemoplague during Transfusion's cast time.
The Crimson Rush depletes normally while under resurrection effects.
Transfusion's cast is special cased to not be cancelled if the target becomes untargetable, dies, or is too far away or no longer in sight during the cast time.
If the target is untargetable by the time the cast completes, however, Tranfusion will not deal them damage but still grant Vladimir the healing.

Map-specific differences (2)

Cooldown changed to 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 seconds.
Heal AP ratio changed to 20% AP.

Sanguine Pool

Cost: 15% current healthCooldown: 28 / 25 / 22 / 19 / 16Cast time: noneEffect radius: 350

Active: Vladimir sinks into a pool of blood, becoming untargetable and ghosted for 2 seconds. He also gains 37.5% bonus movement speed that decays exponentially over 1 second.

Enemies within the pool are dealt magic damage every 0.5 seconds over the duration and are slowed by 40%. Vladimir heals himself for 30% of the pre-mitigation damage dealt, reduced to 18% against minions.

Magic Damage Per Tick: 20 / 33.75 / 47.5 / 61.25 / 75 (+ 3.75% bonus health)
Total Magic Damage: 80 / 135 / 190 / 245 / 300 (+ 15% bonus health)

Vladimir cannot use basic attacks nor abilities during Sanguine Pool, but he can still move. If Tides of Blood is charging at the time of Sanguine Pool's activation, that ability may still be recast.

Targeting input: AutoAffects: Self, EnemiesDamage type: AOE DOT damageDamage sub-types: Magic

Notes (7)

The first tick damages immediately so the final one occurs 0.5 seconds before Vladimir becomes targetable again.
There is an extra damage tick for 0 damage when Vladimir becomes targetable again, triggering the same spell effects as the normal ticks (except those which require damage greater than 0 being dealt).
This will trigger turret aggro onto Vladimir if an enemy champion is still within the effect radius when Sanguine Pool ends.
The slow ends immediately once affected enemies get out of range.
Vladimir can still use summoner spells and item actives during Sanguine Pool.
While unable to attack, Vladimir can still input attack commands - causing him to follow his attack target.
Vladimir's attack range is reduced「 to 0 」「 by 450 」while pooled - causing him to attempt to move right up to his attack target.

Tides of Blood

Cost: 2% / 4% / 6% / 8% (based on charge time) maximum healthCooldown: 13 / 11 / 9 / 7 / 5Cast time: noneEffect radius: 600Width: 120Speed: 4000

Active: Vladimir charges for up to 1.5 seconds, during which he increases Tides of Blood's damage over the first second of the channel, and becomes slowed by 20% afterwards for the remaining duration. Tides of Blood can be recast within the duration, and does so automatically afterwards or if it is interrupted.

Recast: Vladimir unleashes a nova of 15 blood bolts around himself that each deal magic damage to the first enemy hit, increased based on charge time up to the first second.

Minimum Magic Damage: 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 / 90 (+ 1.5% maximum health) (+ 35% AP)
Maximum Magic Damage: 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 (+ 6% maximum health) (+ 80% AP)

If Tides of Blood was charged for at least 1 second, enemies hit are also slowed for 0.5 seconds.

Slow: 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60%

Enemies can intercept multiple bolts, but can be damaged only once.

If Vladimir is below 12% of his maximum health, Tides of Blood will not cost any health.

Targeting input: AutoAffects: Self, EnemiesDamage type: Area damageDamage sub-types: MagicSpell shield: BlockedProjectile: BlockedDisruption: Interrupted

Notes (5)

The spell indicator shows 11 equally spaced missile indicators when hovering the ability in the HUD, however the spell actually casts 15 equally spaced missiles.
The health cost may still drop Vladimir below the specified amount if he is above it. This is verified for every tick of health cost, i.e if the first tick drops him below it, the next ones will stop affecting him if he remains below it.
The following table refers for interactions while Vladimir is channeling:
Death
Cast-inhibiting effects

Hemoplague

Cooldown: 120Cast time: noneTarget range: 625Effect radius: 375

Active: Vladimir spreads a virulent plague at the target location that infects enemies hit for 4 seconds, increasing the damage they take from all sources by 10%.

After the duration, the infection bursts to deal magic damage to all affected targets and, after a 0.4-second delay, heal Vladimir for each infected champion, reduced to 40% for champions beyond the first.

Magic damage: 150 / 250 / 350 (+ 70% AP)
Heal: 150 / 250 / 350 (+ 70% AP)
Reduced Heal: 60 / 100 / 140 (+ 28% AP)
Maximum Total Heal: 390 / 650 / 910 (+ 182% AP)

Targeting input: LocationTarget out-of-range override: Walk in range of the target location to castAffects: Self, EnemiesDamage type: Area damageDamage sub-types: MagicSpell shield: See NotesProjectile: Not Blocked

Notes (6)

Hemoplague will amplify almost all sources and types of damage, even including damage from neutral monsters.
True damage will however not be amplified.(bug)
Hemoplague's effect stacks multiplicatively with other damage modifiers.
Hemoplague amplifies itself for an actual damage of 165 / 275 / 385 (+ 77% AP).
Hemoplague's modifier to incoming damage stacks additively with Alistar's Unbreakable Will for a total damage reduction of 45 / 55 / 65%.(unexpected)
Spell shield does not negate the detonation.

Stats and abilities from the League of Legends Wiki (CC BY-SA 3.0), built for patch 26.22.

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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.

Champion reference

Base stats and every ability with its per-rank values and ratios. Search all champions →

Vladimir — The Crimson Reaper

Class: Battlemage
Resource: Crimson Rush
Range type: Ranged
Adaptive type: Magic
Positions: Middle
Released: 2010-07-27 (V1.0.0.97)
Last changed: V26.17
Price: 1,575 BE · 790 RP

Damage

Toughness

Control

Mobility

Utility

Difficulty

Base stats

Stat	Base	Per level	Level 18
Health	600	+110	2470
Health regen (per 5s)	7	+0.6	17.2
Crimson Rush	2	—	2
Crimson Rush regen (per 5s)	0	—	0
Armor	24	+4.5	100.5
Magic resist	30	+1.3	52.1
Attack damage	55	+3	106
Attack speed	0.658	+2%	0.882
Attack speed ratio	0.658
Attack range	450
Movement speed	330

Level 18 uses League's growth curve (base + 17 × per-level); attack speed grows as bonus % scaled by the attack speed ratio.

Advanced stats & game-mode balance

Acquisition radius: 600
Selection height: 183.33
Selection radius: 120
Pathing radius: 35
Attack cast time (s): 0.3
Attack total time (s): 1.52
Attack delay offset: -0.0721
Basic attack missile speed: 1600

ARAM: damage dealt ×1 · damage taken ×1 · healing ×1

URF: damage dealt ×0.92 · damage taken ×1.05 · healing ×1.2

Abilities

Passive

Crimson Pact

Innate: Vladimir gains (3.333% bonus health) as ability power and (160% AP) as bonus health. These two bonuses do not stack with each other.

Targeting input: PassiveAffects: Self

Notes (5)

Crimson Pact only affects Vladimir's maximum health and will not increase Vladimir's current health to prevent Vladimir from restoring health whenever his ability power fluctuates.
The only exception is purchasing applicable items while inside the fountain, which will restore health equal to the bonus gained.
Vladimir's current health can decrease to match his maximum health if Crimson Pact's bonus health is lost.
Crimson Pact's bonus ability power stacks multiplicatively with other sources of % ability power but its bonus health stacks additively with other sources of bonus health. With Rabadon's Deathcap's Magical Opus, the total is (30% AP + 4.3329% bonus health) bonus ability power and (208% AP + 1.59984% bonus health) bonus health.
Crimson Pact and Riftmaker's Void Infusion create a recursive stat loop.

Transfusion

Cooldown: 9 / 7.9 / 6.8 / 5.7 / 4.6Cast time: 0.25Target range: 600

Active: Vladimir drains blood from the target enemy, dealing magic damage and healing himself. He then generates 1 point of Crimson Rush over the cooldown.

Magic Damage: 80 / 100 / 120 / 140 / 160 (+ 60% AP)
Heal: 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 (+ 35% AP)

Increased Damage: 148 / 185 / 222 / 259 / 296 (+ 111% AP)

Notes (10)

Even though the healing effect is visualized as a projectile, the healing itself triggers as soon as the cast time completes.
Vladimir's resource bar indicates his current Crimson Rush and changes colors depending on the charge-up stage of his surge.
White while generating the first stack and while at 1 stack (there is no time-out period).
Orange while generating the second stack.
Red while he is surging (Crimson Rush will deplete over 2.5 seconds once triggered).
Each stack generates over-time (Transfusion's cooldown).
Vladimir can cast Sanguine Pool and Hemoplague during Transfusion's cast time.
The Crimson Rush depletes normally while under resurrection effects.
Transfusion's cast is special cased to not be cancelled if the target becomes untargetable, dies, or is too far away or no longer in sight during the cast time.
If the target is untargetable by the time the cast completes, however, Tranfusion will not deal them damage but still grant Vladimir the healing.

Map-specific differences (2)

Cooldown changed to 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 seconds.
Heal AP ratio changed to 20% AP.

Transfusion

Cooldown: 9 / 7.9 / 6.8 / 5.7 / 4.6Cast time: 0.25Target range: 600

Active: Vladimir drains blood from the target enemy, dealing magic damage and healing himself. He then generates 1 point of Crimson Rush over the cooldown.

Magic Damage: 80 / 100 / 120 / 140 / 160 (+ 60% AP)
Heal: 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 (+ 35% AP)

Increased Damage: 148 / 185 / 222 / 259 / 296 (+ 111% AP)

Notes (10)

Even though the healing effect is visualized as a projectile, the healing itself triggers as soon as the cast time completes.
Vladimir's resource bar indicates his current Crimson Rush and changes colors depending on the charge-up stage of his surge.
White while generating the first stack and while at 1 stack (there is no time-out period).
Orange while generating the second stack.
Red while he is surging (Crimson Rush will deplete over 2.5 seconds once triggered).
Each stack generates over-time (Transfusion's cooldown).
Vladimir can cast Sanguine Pool and Hemoplague during Transfusion's cast time.
The Crimson Rush depletes normally while under resurrection effects.
Transfusion's cast is special cased to not be cancelled if the target becomes untargetable, dies, or is too far away or no longer in sight during the cast time.
If the target is untargetable by the time the cast completes, however, Tranfusion will not deal them damage but still grant Vladimir the healing.

Map-specific differences (2)

Cooldown changed to 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 seconds.
Heal AP ratio changed to 20% AP.

Sanguine Pool

Cost: 15% current healthCooldown: 28 / 25 / 22 / 19 / 16Cast time: noneEffect radius: 350

Active: Vladimir sinks into a pool of blood, becoming untargetable and ghosted for 2 seconds. He also gains 37.5% bonus movement speed that decays exponentially over 1 second.

Magic Damage Per Tick: 20 / 33.75 / 47.5 / 61.25 / 75 (+ 3.75% bonus health)
Total Magic Damage: 80 / 135 / 190 / 245 / 300 (+ 15% bonus health)

Vladimir cannot use basic attacks nor abilities during Sanguine Pool, but he can still move. If Tides of Blood is charging at the time of Sanguine Pool's activation, that ability may still be recast.

Targeting input: AutoAffects: Self, EnemiesDamage type: AOE DOT damageDamage sub-types: Magic

Notes (7)

The first tick damages immediately so the final one occurs 0.5 seconds before Vladimir becomes targetable again.
There is an extra damage tick for 0 damage when Vladimir becomes targetable again, triggering the same spell effects as the normal ticks (except those which require damage greater than 0 being dealt).
This will trigger turret aggro onto Vladimir if an enemy champion is still within the effect radius when Sanguine Pool ends.
The slow ends immediately once affected enemies get out of range.
Vladimir can still use summoner spells and item actives during Sanguine Pool.
While unable to attack, Vladimir can still input attack commands - causing him to follow his attack target.
Vladimir's attack range is reduced「 to 0 」「 by 450 」while pooled - causing him to attempt to move right up to his attack target.

Tides of Blood

Cost: 2% / 4% / 6% / 8% (based on charge time) maximum healthCooldown: 13 / 11 / 9 / 7 / 5Cast time: noneEffect radius: 600Width: 120Speed: 4000

Recast: Vladimir unleashes a nova of 15 blood bolts around himself that each deal magic damage to the first enemy hit, increased based on charge time up to the first second.

Minimum Magic Damage: 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 / 90 (+ 1.5% maximum health) (+ 35% AP)
Maximum Magic Damage: 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 (+ 6% maximum health) (+ 80% AP)

If Tides of Blood was charged for at least 1 second, enemies hit are also slowed for 0.5 seconds.

Slow: 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60%

Enemies can intercept multiple bolts, but can be damaged only once.

If Vladimir is below 12% of his maximum health, Tides of Blood will not cost any health.

Targeting input: AutoAffects: Self, EnemiesDamage type: Area damageDamage sub-types: MagicSpell shield: BlockedProjectile: BlockedDisruption: Interrupted

Notes (5)

The spell indicator shows 11 equally spaced missile indicators when hovering the ability in the HUD, however the spell actually casts 15 equally spaced missiles.
The health cost may still drop Vladimir below the specified amount if he is above it. This is verified for every tick of health cost, i.e if the first tick drops him below it, the next ones will stop affecting him if he remains below it.
The following table refers for interactions while Vladimir is channeling:
Death
Cast-inhibiting effects

Hemoplague

Cooldown: 120Cast time: noneTarget range: 625Effect radius: 375

Active: Vladimir spreads a virulent plague at the target location that infects enemies hit for 4 seconds, increasing the damage they take from all sources by 10%.

Magic damage: 150 / 250 / 350 (+ 70% AP)
Heal: 150 / 250 / 350 (+ 70% AP)
Reduced Heal: 60 / 100 / 140 (+ 28% AP)
Maximum Total Heal: 390 / 650 / 910 (+ 182% AP)

Notes (6)

Hemoplague will amplify almost all sources and types of damage, even including damage from neutral monsters.
True damage will however not be amplified.(bug)
Hemoplague's effect stacks multiplicatively with other damage modifiers.
Hemoplague amplifies itself for an actual damage of 165 / 275 / 385 (+ 77% AP).
Hemoplague's modifier to incoming damage stacks additively with Alistar's Unbreakable Will for a total damage reduction of 45 / 55 / 65%.(unexpected)
Spell shield does not negate the detonation.

Stats and abilities from the League of Legends Wiki (CC BY-SA 3.0), built for patch 26.22.