Vladimir

Vladimir is an AP mage in the mid, and on patch 16.11 they grade out as a top-tier pick — a 53.4% win rate, 5.2% pick rate, 60,203 ranked games sampled. On the power curve, Vladimir is a scaling champion: comparatively weak early, but one of the strongest picks on the map once core items come online — so the plan is to survive the laning phase and take the game over late.

How Vladimir wins: grouped 5-v-5 teamfights, where Vladimir tips the fight, and sieging objectives and turrets with sustained pressure. The kit grades 9/10 teamfighting, 7/10 siege, 7/10 waveclear. Play around where Vladimir is thin, engage and disengage (3/10, 3/10), and the enemy loses their angle.

The most-played core build is Hextech Rocketbelt, Riftmaker, Rabadon's Deathcap, which holds a 54.2% win rate across 5,932 games this patch. Set the enemy team at the top of the page to see how the path shifts against that comp.

The matchup to respect is Nilah, where Vladimir sits at just 44.3%, the lane swings the other way into Mel (63.1%), and on the team side, Vladimir gains the most from a Aurelion Sol (+12.6% pair win rate).