Vladimir ARAM Mayhem Build

The Crimson Reaper. A below-average pick in ARAM Mayhem on patch 26.21: #127 of 173 champions.

CPatch 26.21MageFighterNo runes in Mayhem

Tier: C
Win rate: 47.8%
Pick rate: 7.0%
Rank: #127 of 173
Games: 1,624,195
Patch: 26.21

How to play Vladimir in ARAM Mayhem

Vladimir is a below-average pick in ARAM Mayhem on patch 26.21: tier C, #127 of 173 champions, with a 47.8% win rate over 1,624,195 games.

88% of Vladimir's damage to champions is magic, so enemy magic resist is what slows it down. It soaks 60,908 damage per game and mitigates another 35,695, so it belongs at the front: start fights and absorb the poke your carries can't. It brings almost no crowd control, so it relies on teammates to set up kills.

The AP build, ability power items, is both the most played and the top-ranked path: Riftmaker, Rabadon's Deathcap and Shadowflame, with a 48.8% win rate over 813,705 games. For boots, Gluttonous Greaves are both the most bought and the top-ranked pair.

The cards that do best on Vladimir are Back To Basics, Wooglet's Witchcap and Mad Scientist. Cards built around ability haste fill most of the top of its list, followed by movement speed. Most of its S-tier cards are prismatic, so a prismatic offer is often the pick that shapes the game. Skip Porcupine and Snowblast when you can: they do worst on Vladimir. A pair to look for: Eureka with Wooglet's Witchcap.

Take Ghost and Mark (1% of players); Flash is the common alternative. Max Q (Transfusion) first, then E, then W.

Vladimir ARAM Mayhem build

ARAMKit groups every Vladimir game by build path. The top-ranked path comes first, with the items most players start with, buy first and add later.

AP build · top ranked

48.8% win rate · 59% of Vladimir games · 813,705 games

Start

Haunting Guise

Core items, in buying order

Riftmaker
Rabadon's Deathcap
Shadowflame

Boots on the AP build for Vladimir, top ranked first, with the share of players who buy them
Boots, best first	Players
Gluttonous Greaves	11%
Sorcerer's Shoes	29%
No boots	39%

Situational, after the core

Void Staff34% buy it
Stormsurge9% buy it
Spirit Visage15% buy it
Cosmic Drive23% buy it
Zhonya's Hourglass16% buy it
Liandry's Torment6% buy it

Other build paths

Other Vladimir build paths with share of games, win rate and core items
Path	Core items	Games	Win rate
TankHeartsteel, Warmog's Armor, Riftmaker		16.9%	47.6%

Games: the share of all Vladimir games that went this way.

Most bought items

Riftmaker71% of games
Rabadon's Deathcap59% of games
Cosmic Drive46% of games
Shadowflame40% of games
Heartsteel36% of games
Spirit Visage29% of games
Ionian Boots of Lucidity20% of games
Sorcerer's Shoes20% of games
Void Staff16% of games
Warmog's Armor14% of games

Best augments for Vladimir

Every card with enough Vladimir games, by tier and best first within each tier. Tiers are Vladimir's own: a card can be S tier here and C tier on another champion. As Riot's policy asks, cards are shown by tier and order only, never with a win rate. Click a card for its own page; the augment tier list ranks them over all champions.

PrismaticBest prismatic cards

GoldBest gold cards

SilverBest silver cards

1Lich BrainTier S
2Leg DayTier A
3Escape PlanTier A

S- and A-tier cards for Vladimir

9 S tier and 31 A tier, best first.

The S- and A-tier augments for Vladimir in ARAM Mayhem, best first, with their rarity and what they do
Augment	Rarity	Tier	What it does
Back To Basics	Prismatic	Tier S	Your Ultimate Ability is sealed. Gain 35% Ability Damage, Healing, Shielding, and 70 Ability Haste.
Wooglet's Witchcap	Prismatic	Tier S	QUEST: Possess Rabadon's Deathcap and Zhonya's Hourglass. REWARD: Get Wooglet's Witchcap.
Mad Scientist	Prismatic	Tier S	On each Revive, you grow large (gaining 30% Adaptive Force and 20% Health) or tiny (gaining 70 Ability Haste and 40% Movement Speed).
Lich Brain	Silver	Tier S	Gain (30+4% Bonus Health) Ability Power.
Weapon of Destiny	Gold	Tier S	Your first Legendary Item becomes the Weapon of Destiny. When a champion you damaged within the last 3 seconds dies, increase the Weapon of…
Eureka	Prismatic	Tier S	Gain (30% Ability Power) Ability Haste.
Hand of Baron	Prismatic	Tier S	Gain 25% Adaptive Force. Nearby allied minions are greatly empowered.
Giant Slayer	Prismatic	Tier S	Become tiny, gain 20% Movement Speed, and deal between 10% and 30% bonus damage to champions based on how much larger they are than you.
Infinite Recursion	Prismatic	Tier S	Gain 60 Ability Haste, plus 3 Ability Haste per takedown.
Goliath	Prismatic	Tier A	Become large, gaining 35% Health and 15% Adaptive Force.
Leg Day	Silver	Tier A	Gain 50 Movement Speed and 50% Slow Resist.
With Haste	Gold	Tier A	Gain (70% Ability Haste) Move Speed.
Escape Plan	Silver	Tier A	Gain a massive (65% Max Health) decaying Shield, decaying 150% Movement Speed, and a decaying shrink effect upon reaching 35% Health (75…
Phenomenal Evil	Gold	Tier A	Permanently gain 1 Ability Power when you damage enemy champions with Abilities. If taken as your second Augment, starts with 40 Ability…
Omni Soul	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 3 random Dragon Souls.
Steel Your Heart	Gold	Tier A	QUEST: Possess Heartsteel with 300 stacks. REWARD: Multiply Heartsteel stacks by 3.
Celestial Body	Gold	Tier A	Gain 1500 Health, but you deal 10% less damage.
Ominous Pact	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 75–150 (by level) Ability Power, 50% Movement Speed, and 20% Omnivamp based on missing Health. Spell casts cost 5% of your current…
FireFox	Silver	Tier A	Autocast: Gain 25% movement speed and conjure three flames that orbit you every 9 seconds, targetting the closest visible enemy in range and…
ADAPt	Silver	Tier A	Convert Bonus Attack Damage to Ability Power, and gain (15%) Ability Power. Converts at a rate of 1.67 Ability Power per point of Attack…
Stay Resolute	Silver	Tier A	Damaging enemy champions with selected ability grants you 1–3 (by level) Armor or Magic Resistance based on their Adaptive Force Damage…
Upgrade Stormsurge	Gold	Tier A	Stormsurge's Squall now always detonates in an area, dealing (10%+2% Ability Power) maximum Health magic damage to all nearby enemies. Enemy…
From Beginning To End	Gold	Tier A	Gain the First Strike and Dark Harvest Keystone Runes. First Strike: When you initiate champion combat, deal 10% extra damage for 3 seconds…
Donation	Gold	Tier A	Receive 1750 Gold. Thanks chat!:)
Don't Blink	Silver	Tier A	Gain 1% bonus damage per 10 Movement Speed more you have than the target.
Tooth Fairy	Gold	Tier A	When you deal more than 25% of an enemy champion's Health in less than 2.5 seconds, they drop a Tooth. 4 seconds cooldown per target
Flashy	Gold	Tier A	Your Flash has 3 charges. After 120 seconds, regain all charges.
Witchful Thinking	Silver	Tier A	Gain Ability Power 20–80 (by level) Ability Power.
Homeguard	Silver	Tier A	Gain 100% Movement Speed, disabled for 6 seconds after taking damage.
Kill Secured	Silver	Tier A	Gain 60% Movement Speed towards enemies below 40% health.
Shrink Engine	Gold	Tier A	Takedowns grant a stack that makes you 4% smaller, grants 8 Ability Haste, and 1% Movement Speed. Lose 65% stacks on death…
En Passant	Prismatic	Tier A	Periodically identify Vitals on enemy champions. Hitting Vitals with Attacks or Abilities deals an additional 6% + 1.5% per stack max Health…
Goldrend	Prismatic	Tier A	Damaging a champion with Attacks or Abilities deals an additional (50–150 (by level) +20% Ability Power +40% Bonus Attack Damage) magic…
Ultimate Awakening	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 30 Ultimate Ability Haste. After using your Ultimate, refresh your basic abilities and gain 300 basic ability haste for 15s. (20s…
Circle of Death	Prismatic	Tier A	Your healing and Health Regen deal 70% of the value magic damage to the nearest enemy champion.
Transmute: Prismatic	Gold	Tier A	Gain a random Augment Tier Prismatic Augment.
Tank Engine	Gold	Tier A	On takedown, gain a stack that grants 5% increased size and 5% max Health. Lose 65% of stacks on death.
Purist - Caster	Silver	Tier A	Conversion Rate: 0.65 Ability Haste per 1% Attack Speed
Transmute: Chaos	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 2 random Augment Tier Augments.
Warlock Juicebox	Gold	Tier A	Gain (10%+3.5% Ability Power) Omnivamp.

Average on Vladimir
54 cards, best first

Below average on Vladimir
28 cards, best first

Weakest on Vladimir
8 cards, best first

Best first augment for Vladimir

Your first card decides the early fights, and a card that is great as a first pick can be a weak fourth. ARAMKit ranks Vladimir's cards for each pick on its own; these are the top five per pick, with their tier in that pick. For the first pick, Back To Basics, Wooglet's Witchcap and Lich Brain come out on top.

The best augments for Vladimir in each pick of an ARAM Mayhem game, best first, with their tier in that pick
#	First pick	Second pick	Third pick	Fourth pick
1	Back To BasicsTier S	Back To BasicsTier S	Hand of BaronTier S	With HasteTier S
2	Wooglet's WitchcapTier S	Bread And ButterTier S	Back To BasicsTier S	Lich BrainTier S
3	Lich BrainTier S	Mad ScientistTier S	Mad ScientistTier S	Mad ScientistTier S
4	Mad ScientistTier S	Wooglet's WitchcapTier S	Lich BrainTier S	Back To BasicsTier S
5	Celestial BodyTier S	Giant SlayerTier S	EurekaTier S	EurekaTier S

Strong card pairs

Two cards that do especially well together on Vladimir, best pair first.

Summoner spells and skill order

Summoner spells

Ghost + Mark1% of players · 48.8% win rate
Flash + Ghost26% of players · 48.1% win rate
Flash + Mark72% of players · 47.7% win rate

Skill order

QTransfusion
ETides of Blood
WSanguine Pool

Max Q first. 79% of players use this order (48.8% win rate); put points in R whenever you can.

Vladimir in an average Mayhem game

Averages per game over every game on this patch.

K / D / A: 10.4 / 11.1 / 25.0
KDA: 3.56
Damage to champions: 42,458
Damage taken: 60,908
Self-mitigated: 35,695
Healing on allies: 27
Shielding on allies: 0
Crowd control: 9 s
Kill participation: 64%
Game length: 16:58

Damage type

Physical 7%Magic 88%True 4%

Questions and answers

What is the best Vladimir build in ARAM Mayhem?

On patch 26.21 ARAMKit ranks the AP build first for Vladimir: Riftmaker, Rabadon's Deathcap and Shadowflame. It is also the most played build.

What are the best augments for Vladimir in ARAM Mayhem?

The S-tier cards for Vladimir, best first: Back To Basics, Wooglet's Witchcap, Mad Scientist, Lich Brain and Weapon of Destiny. The full list by tier is on this page.

Is Vladimir good in ARAM Mayhem?

Vladimir is tier C on patch 26.21, #127 of 173 champions, with a 47.8% win rate over 1.6 million games. That makes it a below-average pick in ARAM Mayhem right now.

What is the best first augment for Vladimir in ARAM Mayhem?

For Vladimir's first pick on patch 26.21: Back To Basics, Wooglet's Witchcap, Lich Brain, Mad Scientist and Celestial Body, best first. Cards rank differently in later picks; the table on this page has all four.

Other Mages in ARAM Mayhem

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ARAM Mayhem tier list
Every champion by tier on patch 26.21.
ARAM Mayhem augment tier list
Every card from S to D over all champions.
All Mayhem builds
Pick a champion from the full list.
ARAM Mayhem rules
Augment levels, rerolls and why there are no runes.
ARAM Mayhem guide
How the mode, the cards and the picks work.
Vladimir counters
Its lane matchups on Summoner's Rift.
ARAM Mayhem overlay
The card picker and build in the app.

Source: ARAMKit, used with permission. Patch 26.21, 23,177,263 ARAM Mayhem games, data of October 28, 2026. Riot keeps Mayhem games out of its public match API, so these aggregates come from ARAMKit. Card tiers are shown without win rates, as Riot's developer policy asks.