Everything for Vladimir Top on patch 16.11, pulled from real Emerald+ ranked games — the build path, rune pages, the counters worth banning, the strongest teammates, and Vladimir's win conditions.
Vladimir is an AP mage in the top, and on patch 16.11 they grade out as a solid mid-tier pick — a 51.1% win rate, 1.6% pick rate, 18,114 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 54.1% win rate across 1,356 games this patch. Item order and defensive swaps update against whichever enemy comp you select.
The matchup to respect is Akali, where Vladimir sits at just 40.1%, the lane swings the other way into Vayne (61.5%), and on the team side, Vladimir gains the most from a Shaco (+6.9% pair win rate).
Vladimir's highest-volume core items and rune page this patch. Select the enemy composition above and the build re-optimizes for that exact matchup.
Vladimir Top's worst matchups on patch 16.11, ranked by how often they win the lane. Ban these to smooth the game out.
Champions whose presence raises Vladimir's win rate most as Top, by pair WR delta over Vladimir's solo performance.
Vladimir is also played in these other roles this patch.
For full draft-time coaching with all 10 picks, use the Team Builder. To see Vladimir's tier on this patch, see the Tier List.