Vlad should prioritize AP when building up items, unless he's in danger of getting gibbed too easily, but that's a judgment call. You really shouldn't die just because you went blasting wand instead of giant's belt when building up rylai.

As you're not tanking, that HP is just for safety, but it doesn't enhance your primary function.

Mogwai

United States13274 Posts

September 13 2010 20:24 GMT

#17863

Sorc Shoes
Spirit Visage and/or Haunting Guise (or sometimes neither)
Rylai's
Z-Ring
Void Staff or GA

something like that. So more AP, but both are grood.

Morayfire73

United States298 Posts

September 13 2010 20:29 GMT

#17864

Thanks for the help. Gonna try adding in void staff and GA to my late game.

Phrost

United States4008 Posts

September 13 2010 20:30 GMT

#17865

Honestly when I play vlad I try to get as much ap as possible because you should never really be in danger of dying.

I usually get doran's shield, boots, then rush Zhonyas so I can pool, zhonyas, wait like 2 seconds then pool again. Makes you more or less impossible to kill.

Phrost

United States4008 Posts

September 13 2010 20:34 GMT

#17866

On September 14 2010 03:49 Caller wrote:

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are you doing my pro tiamat build

No

I've been doing this:
start:
doran's (shield in solo, blade in duo)
health potion

First trip:
boots
pickaxe

2nd trip:
Merc treads

Whenever:
Finish IE
get vampiric scepterx2
get a bloodthirster

then I usually have already won or lost.

Vernom

Spain374 Posts

September 13 2010 20:34 GMT

#17867

What is better for Miss Fortune, AP or physical damage?

I get manamune, shoes, infinity edge and 3 bloodthirst

Maybe I will get sword of the occult before infinity edge the next time.

Kultcher

United States150 Posts

September 13 2010 20:35 GMT

#17868

On September 14 2010 04:12 STS17 wrote:
Alternatively, if you let players pick their own teams then you will have an event where the teams are so stacked its like there isn't even another team. Consider putting idrA into a bronze league only tournament and then ask someone to predict the results, as it would not be to dissimilar to a situation like this.

What if we posed some kind of restriction on the team building? It could be something like how you build armies in Warhammer and similar games, like a point cap except, I guess, use Elo? I know Elo is a generally crappy system for this game but it's all we got.

So you could say like, each 5-man team could have no more than 6750 combined Elo (that'd be 5 1350's or 2 1500s and 3 1250s or whatever). Not perfect but it might make for somewhat more balanced games. Maybe. Just a thought.

Anyway, RE: Tryndamere:

Is it just me or can jungle Tryndamere be pretty strong? Seems like if you go Green pot first you can start at Red and tear through the jungle pretty quick. And Trynd is definitely a high power ganker with a built-in damaging flash and strong slow even at level 4. And past level 6 he can just tower dive with impunity and then run back into the jungle to recharge without even going back. He can also escape harassment easily with Spinning Slash across the trees.

I was testing with a suboptimal rune set (only 8% crit from runes, starting with Green Pot + 5 Pots) and things moved really fast with relatively small risk of dying. I can only imagine if I had a full crit page it'd be nuts (that's be like 40% with Green pot, yeah?)

Nokeboy

United States1009 Posts

September 13 2010 20:37 GMT

#17869

what is the order of learning spells for vlad? i usually go qwqe to start out then max e and q, but w never seems to be good enough!

Juicyfruit

Canada5484 Posts

September 13 2010 20:38 GMT

#17870

W is a bad spell to spam, so yeah, Q and E.

Morayfire73

United States298 Posts

September 13 2010 20:40 GMT

#17871

On September 14 2010 05:37 Nokeboy wrote:
what is the order of learning spells for vlad? i usually go qwqe to start out then max e and q, but w never seems to be good enough!

When I play vlad I max out Q first. Once you get level 5 the CD is short enough for you to spam like crazy. W's duration doesn't change with an increase in level, so I normally put one point in it until q and e are maxed.

Southlight

United States11767 Posts

September 13 2010 21:12 GMT

#17872

On September 14 2010 04:29 Soloside wrote:

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Not like we were serious underdogs...-.-'

True, you guys had EzPz feasting on Desirous during Ez-is-bugged week, and Aaerox is a fucking godly carry unless someone starts taking a dump on him lol.

Caller

Poland8075 Posts

September 13 2010 21:16 GMT

#17873

On September 14 2010 05:34 Phrost wrote:

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why merc treads?
Usually if you get caught you're dead meat anyways...

Also, IE first?

Caller

Poland8075 Posts

September 13 2010 21:16 GMT

#17874

On September 14 2010 05:34 Vernom wrote:
What is better for Miss Fortune, AP or physical damage?

I get manamune, shoes, infinity edge and 3 bloodthirst

Maybe I will get sword of the occult before infinity edge the next time.

physical damage always

manamune is bad don't get it

Netherlands12045 Posts

September 13 2010 21:31 GMT

#17875

some how my teemo 25-0-5 was raping the enemy :D... teemo is so cute ^^

spinesheath

Germany8679 Posts

September 13 2010 21:31 GMT

#17876

I would advise against snowballing items on squishy champions without any escapes, like MF. Unless you are way better than your opponents, at which point you can do whatever you want.
I suggest focusing on BT/LW for MF, as those work best with her Q and autoattack. A bit less damage on her ult isn't the end of the world, I would mostly use it to kill off people who are close to death anyways.

ghen

United States1356 Posts

September 13 2010 21:45 GMT

#17877

Frozen mallet seems really expensive on Olaf and doesn't seem to add much to the character except a gratuitous amount of HP. I'm always going to get madred's razor and zerkers greaves, but beyond that anyone have a good idea on maxing HP and survivability?

Stack HoG until rich?

Templar.

Canada133 Posts

September 13 2010 21:52 GMT

#17878

Anyone know what i should use for Annie(f0r equipment), just following recommended items atm and i'm doing fairly well in games .

ghen

United States1356 Posts

September 13 2010 21:53 GMT

#17879

Champion change

Free champs this week:

Week 9 (September 7, 2010)

Canada4732 Posts

September 13 2010 22:03 GMT

#17880

On September 14 2010 05:30 Phrost wrote:
Honestly when I play vlad I try to get as much ap as possible because you should never really be in danger of dying.

I usually get doran's shield, boots, then rush Zhonyas so I can pool, zhonyas, wait like 2 seconds then pool again. Makes you more or less impossible to kill.

You can't pool, zhon, pool unless you max pool early and have bluebuff. If you wait for level 18 to get full pool, you might as well go rylais, haunting or spirit first.

Go SS -> Rylai -> Zhon if you want to use a pool first build. If your team falls behind, double elixir up. Abuse pool to tower dive with ghost from behind and build up SS stacks by staying safe. You can also afford to keep tides at 4 stacks prior to fights without worrying about needing targets to Q because of the lowered cost. Its worth it because AP will give your tides some bite, and you'll still benefit from the increased healing.