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Vladimir Build
Ability Sequence
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yo, this is my Vladimir AP build. It can help you do insane damage while having an abundant amount of health, Probably topping out at around 3.5k. Give it a shot, let me know what you think! +1 If you like it and it works for you!
REMEMBER THIS: You are a Mage first, and a tank second. With almost no armor or Magic resistance you won't last long against a group of enemy champions. But luckily if you engaged them with your own team as well, with Hemoplague they should be dead long before you ever even need to run away. Be careful though and play like a mage, a 'sturdy' mage.
Check the Skills section on tips and tricks on playing this character!
This is my first build :D so pls +1 if you like it.
More to come!
I went with Magic Pen Marks to help early game!
Potency Quintessences and Glyphs for the egde early on!
And c/d reduction Seals
Thats it! A handful of easy to find runes you probably already have sitting around.
These are the Masteries I use for Vlad as it gives him great durability in lane and is able to take a fair bit more damage.
Summoner Spells
I normally take:
These are what I recommend as Ghost helps to catch or get out of a fight you dont wanna be in! and ignite is perfect with Hemoplague.
Note Before You Read: If You are not aware, Vladimir's passive gives him +2 Health for each AP, and +1 AP for every 25 Health!
I thought it best to start out with a simple Amplifying Tome for the AP benefit early and a single health potion.
Then rushing a Will of the Ancients. This is perfect for your Transfusion!
Then I go for Sorcerers Shoes, as it gives you that bit more magic pen!
or I go for these, these work really well with your Q!
Then I get a Spirit Visage, this also helps increase how much you heal yourself, plus a bit more Health and AP!
I then build towards a Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Starting with the two AP items first.
After that, I go straight into a Deathcap. This is the mother of AP items. When you have this item the opposing team will have difficulty taking you down!
For the last item of the build I take Void Staff, as this really does help, +70 AP and 40% Magic pen, you will be dominating anyone.
1. Transfusion:
Sucks enemy health and heals you! Your main move, Should be leveled to full ASAP. It has absolutely no cost so cast it every chance you get. Early game, Dip in, Cast it, and get out. Rinse Repeat till you have the advantage. Ignite the enemy and finish them off with Ghost+Sanguine Pool as they run away.
2. Sanguine Pool:
Turns you into a puddle of blood, Dealing damage to enemies above you as well as healing yourself. Cost 20% Current health to activate so use wisely! This move can be used for both Tower Diving and Escaping Ganks. Best used say if a nasty projectile is flying towards your face, pop it and dodge the move entirely and sneak away unharmed. Example; Ashe's Ult, Sion's Stun, Blitz's Fist. Use it in conjunction with Ghost for an easy behind turret kill or to escape a neardeath gank. (DOES NOT STOP ENVIRONMENTAL STUNS! EXAMPLE; Veigar's stun.
3. Tides of Blood:
This move can be extremely powerful during teamfights but deadly to yourself early game. I chose to only put one rank in it early game for minion farming and maybe a little boosted damage during a fight but nothing more. Towards the end, when you become entrenched in team fights this move will begin to shine.. When mixed with Sanguine Pool and Hemoplague you will begin to do some REALLY NASTY AoE damage. The trick is to just watch yourself and only cast it when you have the health to waste.
4. Hemoplague:
Your Ultimate, It has a long cooldown and I kind of skimped on CD reduction in the item builds! So pay attention and use it only when you can get the most out of it, Example;: 2 Champs early game, 3-4 Late Game in team fights. Preferably all five! Toss it and follow it up with some Tides of Blood and watch the enemies' healths melt away. It works well with Ignite to provide a really nasty 600+ damage finisher. Level it every chance you get, It is your big daddy and can easily break the other team during a team fight.
Team Fights: Your Moment to Shine
As the game progresses, your enemies and your own team will start to travel more closely together and attempt to gank loose teammates or push the remaining turrets. This generally happens at around level 13-15+. Watch yourself, making sure that you are never alone on your enemy's half of the field for more than brief moment. Even make sure that you are not alone on YOUR side of the field if all of the enemy champions are missing.
When you and your team finally engage the enemy, make sure to let a more sturdy champion such as a tank initiate. When the enemy's team swarms around him to start their attack you should pop your Ultimate, ensuring that you reach as many of them as possible. Close the gap to the enemy, trying to stay tucked behind your tank or melee and use your Tides of Blood and Transfusion spells each on cooldown. (MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE HEALTH TO SPARE FOR TIDES OF BLOOD) Between your Ultimate and your teammates' damage, the enemy should be dead or staggering away while your team walks off with only scratches. Try to cut off the enemies as they run away with Ghost + Sanguine Pool, slowing them down as you cast Transfusion/Tides of Blood/Ignite to finish them off. BE SMART! If an enemy has gotten away, retreat! Don't be reckless! THE ONLY THING THAT CAN KILL YOU AS VLAD IS LACK OF CARENESS!
At the end, if for whatever reason your team is having trouble pushing the final turrets, I suggest grabbing the Lich Bane from the optional item list. Allowing you spike 800 damage hits on turrets every three seconds, YOU can push the turrets! Having around 4k Health and taking only minimal damage from cannon fire, YOU could even backdoor a turret without minions provided you are careful.
Follow these strategies, tips, and tricks and you should rock the enemy team with no problem. If for any reason any part of these Strategies or any other part of this guide were not clear to you. Please leave me a comment! I will try to explain it in more depth as well as use your feedback to improve the wording of my guide! Thank you and enjoy.


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Short post, just wanted to show how I made my tags for the presents I gave this year. I used the Cricut to make everyone's monogram. It turned out really cute, and I will probably do this again! I also saved a lot of money by not using the sticky tags.
Friday, December 24, 2010
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Christmas Tree Decorations
I saw this idea in the Scrapbooks etc magazine and kinda had to figure out myself how it was done. I thought this would be a good gift for my grandmother and step grandmother, because after all, what do you get your grandmother who has everything? I also made a set for myself and my mother because we are both obsessed with Christmas decorations. To start you need three Styrofoam tree shapes, any size you want, hot glue, scrapbook paper, a cutter, and decorative cutting scissors. You start by cutting the scrapbook paper into one inch strips.
Then you cut those strips into smaller 2.5 inch strips. Then you use the decorative cutting scissors and cut one side just to make it look cute.
Then you wrap the small strips around a pencil so that it flares out.
Last you start at the bottom of the Styrofoam tree and hot glue the strips on.
Eventually you get into a rhythm and it turns out to be a cute tree!
The tree in the magazine had brads and buttons on them, but I thought my paper was busy enough so I didn't put those things on them, but it is another way to make them stand out more! Here are the different sets I made!
Monday, December 20, 2010
Made with Love
This year I got this genius idea to make all my Christmas Cards. It took FOREVER and Wicked decided that he loved playing with the ribbon, so that made the process even longer, BUT it turned out great and I was very pleased with my decision to make them. It felt great knowing that I took the time to hand pick and write every card to my friends and family. Next year I will have it planned better. these were not the look that I had in mind, but luckily they turned out cute and I love them all! I got to use my cricuit that my grandmother gave me, and I was happy that she finally got to see what it does! I used 2 packs of Christmas paper and lots of ribbon and brads, but the ribbon I got from a discount store so it wasn't too expensive. I wished I had taken pictures of the process but it was too hard to do that and make them at the same time. Here are the finished cards!
Friday, December 17, 2010
Snowman Ornaments
At school we have a committee called the spirit committee. We try to do nice things to get people happy and keep people happy at school. One thing I like to do is make ornaments for the people in the school. Last year I made coke cans into apple ornaments. This year i decided to try snowmen. I wasn't sure how it was going to turn out but thankfully everything came out great! I started with jingle bells. I make a very weird contraption to hang them on so i could spray paint them. This was the hardest part of the process. Everything else was super easy.
Close up of the jingle bells being painted.
After I painted the bells, I added the faces with paint pens. Black for the eyes and mouth, and orange for the nose. Then I cut small ribbons for the tops of the ear muffs. I glued those on with hot glue. After that, I matched the puff balls by color and glued them on with hot glue as well. I attached ornament hooks, but for most of them you didn't need them. They turned out really cute and I was pretty proud of myself :)
Friday, December 10, 2010
O Christmas Tree
Most of you that know me, know I am pretty original when it comes to decorating. Whatever I like is what I am going to put up, and it really doesn't matter because I'm the only one that lives in my house :) My first and Christmas tree is one I've had for a couple years. I keep adding to it, it has certain colors so I am picky about which ornaments get to hang on it! My 7.5 foot Christmas tree is green with lime green, pink, purple, silver, and turquoise ornaments. Those are my favorite colors and luckily they work together nicely!
This is a close up of some of the ornaments on this tree. My grandmother (my dad's mom) used to make these ornaments when we were little and as i got older and she passed away I learned from my aunts how to make the ornaments. They are VERY hard but luckily I have the newest scrapbook items to help me out. The ornament I am talking about is the turquoise and white ball hanging by the turquoise poinsettia. The next time I make one, I will upload the "how to"
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Christmas at Grammie and Grampie's House
I started decorating my parent's house before mine with help from Katelyn and Katie, and although I didn't take many pictures of her decorations I did take pictures of my adorable sons! Wicked and Manolo love tree skirts and I only have one at my house so they are very glad they get to hang out under Grammie's trees with her nice tree skirt.
This tree wasn't quite finished but Wicked and Bama decided it would be a good idea to find a place to rest.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Randi's Baby Shower
Working in a school setting, you are eventually going to throw several wedding and baby showers. Luckily for me, I had the pleasure of meeting Randi this year and we became fast friends. She is the epitome of a sweet southern girl and now an amazing mother! Before baby Channing came along, the first grade team threw her a baby shower. For this shower we used baby boy greens, browns, and blues. I handmade all of the sticks for the cupcakes and the decorations for the centerpieces.
The tags have Channing's initials on them and zoo animals on the back. I used the same thing for the sticks on the cupcakes.
Randi got some really great things for Channing and her family was able to come to the shower. He is a very lucky boy!
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Katelyn's Shower
For Katelyn's shower, I decided that I wanted a Mad Hatter's theme. I love themes, and Katelyn pretty much loves everything, so it was easy to please her. Lucky for me, two of my cousins, both named Miranda, took plenty of pictures for me to post my lovely party. Thanks to them, we have lots of pictures! That is the one thing I hate about hosting, you can never take enough pictures!
I used red roses, playing cards, and signs to make the centerpieces. I also used oversized tea cups and a tea pot to keep the roses in. Everything turned out so cute!
Anna is modeling the hat that Erin L. made! The hat was adorable :) I have such talented friends!
I was so grateful that everything pulled together so nicely, and so thankful for all the wonderful friends and family who made things and helped make the party such a sucess!
Monday, October 4, 2010
Everything Erin :)
I am very excited to share with my friends and family "Everything Erin". I will be posting all of my house decorating endeavors, crafts, scrapbook layouts, recipes and SO much more! Happy Reading!!!
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Gold Multi-layered Chain Necklace - Forever 21 ($3)
Green Wool Pencil Skirt - Ann Taylor via Goodwill ($2!)
Suede Leopard Print Pumps - Kimchi Blue, Urban Outfitters ($10)
So yeah, I am seriously wearing a wool skirt today. Quite a contrast from my last post, no? Well, the weather became slightly autumn-ish today, so I jumped at the opportunity to wear this newly acquired skirt. I love the classic lines and sturdy fabric - I know it's a piece I'll get a lot of wear out of during the fall and winter.
This skirt is one of my purchases from the thrifting extravaganza that I embarked upon yesterday. I'm a huge fan of Goodwill (there are three in my local area), and yesterday was their semi-annual $2 sale. Ever clothing item in the store was $2, so I took the opportunity to stock up on some new (to me) items for my closet. While I didn't necessarily get all the items I was looking for (still no jean jacket!), I did get some nice things I was pretty psyched about. Besides the above skirt, here are the other pieces I thrifted:
Vintage Handmade Sundress, Merona Blue Linen Sundress, Vintage Gray Sweater dress, Merona Peach Satin Sheath
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I wasn't expecting to play nine holes of golf when I went home to see my family last weekend. With a busy schedule of a birthday party for my nephews, seeing friends, trying to squeeze in a bike ride and not much time to do it all, I told my dad there wasn't enough time to get nine holes in.
What I should have been expecting is that I was going to be playing golf no matter how little time there was to do it because my dad never takes no for an answer, especially when I'm home and he feels like golfing. After a short, but effective, guilt trip from him to me, we set a tee time for 10:30 the following morning.
Fair enough, I thought. I love golf and a few hours on the course with my brother and dad is never a bad thing. However, I was adamant that I got a good bike ride in while I was home. Living in Chicago means having to ride at least 45 minutes to get away from lots of traffic to enjoy a peaceful ride. When I'm back home in Chardon, the open roads and hills are aplenty. Plus, the weather was going to be nice. Good for golf and riding.
I pulled up Google Maps on my phone and found out the course was 13.5 miles from my house. That was enough for me because I knew after all the hills I'd be riding to get there, it would be just enough to get some training in and not be completely spent for nine holes.
I got up at 8:00 a.m., suited up and took off for a chilly morning ride. When I finally got to the course, the priceless looks from all the other golfers of me in my cycling kit made it all worthwhile. I highly doubt many people in the area ride their bikes to go golfing and I probably would be giving the same glances myself if I was on the other end of the situation.
What was harder than any of the hills I had to ride was having to play without my own clubs. My brother has a nice set of Mizuno's with a new Callaway X Hot driver and I used those a little bit during the round. The driver was especially nice. But for the few holes where we found ourselves on completely opposite sides of the hole, I was forced to use a very old set of Titliest clubs that I used to routinely play years ago. Put it this way, they had no pop back then either.
Overall, I was pretty happy with my first nine holes of the year. Even though I shot a pathetic 53, a score I haven't shot in many years on nine, I scrapped out a few pars and was on for birdy on multiple holes. The problem? I had two 8's on my scorecard, lost a couple balls, and used two different putters through the whole nine. Needless to say, I never found much of a groove playing with a bunch of different clubs that were foreign to me.
In the end, it wasn't about the clubs or the scorecard, though. It was simply about getting out on the course on a nice April morning with my dad and brother. I never should have considered not playing that nine and I'm glad I did.
I'll take a nice bike ride, 53 on the scorecard, and time with my family any Saturday morning.


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I was looking through the Fiordland folder of my NZ pics to see what I had from Mirror Lakes (inspired by Ralph de Zilva's effort) when I rediscovered my dolphin pics from Doubtful Sound, south island, New Zealand. When I took these, I looked at them on the laptop and wasn't very happy with them, they all seemed over or under exposed, and I never went back to them.
This one was very over exposed but I like how it has come up, and you can even see a little exhalation from the breathing hole as the dolphin is splashing back from a jump.
Can't believe I never gave these the proper consideration they deserve. Sadly, these dolphins are in decline and are considered likely to be extinct in the fiords within 50 years.
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Fiordland boasts an abundance of marine mammals, including resident populations of bottlenose dolphins. The Doubtful Sound complex population is one of three isolated groups that have been identified in Fiordland, the others being in the Dusky/Breaksea Sound complex and a northern group ranging from Lake McKerrow
to Charles Sound.
Alongside growing environmental awareness, international public interest in interacting with marine mammals has increased in recent years. This has contributed to an increased establishment of commercial marine mammal viewing operations throughout New Zealand. Another major factor fuelling the scenic cruise industry in the Doubtful Sound complex is its natural beauty and isolation.
There is strong scientific evidence indicating that the effects of vessels in the Doubtful Sound complex are impacting on the bottlenose dolphin population's viability. It is highly likely that the existing range and intensity of impacts will lead
to the Doubtful Sound complex dolphin population becoming extinct within 45 years.
The Fiordland bottlenose dolphins are unique on an international scale for several reasons:
• Aside from the three populations in Fiordland, no other bottlenose populations
in the world are known to reside in fiords.
• They are the southernmost populations of resident bottlenose dolphins.
• These dolphins have a larger body and smaller fins than more northerly populations to help conserve heat. This is likely in order to adapt to the cold water.
Bottlenose dolphins in the Doubtful Sound complex population also have unique characteristics:
• Compared to calving in warmer waters, calving in the Doubtful Sound complex shows strong seasonality, with a peak between December and April. By comparison, populations in tropical regions calve during 10-12 months of the
• Average group size in the Doubtful Sound complex has been reported at between 16 and 20 dolphins. There have been sightings of larger groups, however, making groups in the Doubtful Sound complex larger than those observed in resident inshore populations elsewhere.
• The dolphins have distinctive social and cultural characteristics.
As previously stated, the Doubtful Sound complex bottlenose dolphin population was 69 individuals in 1994. At the end of 2006 the population had declined to 56. Although there have been rare sightings of individual dolphins in other fiords, the
Doubtful Sound group remains within the Doubtful Sound complex year round, rarely leaving the fiord for more than a few hours. Because emigration is rare and immigration has never been observed in 16 years of study, the potential exists for this small isolated population to be prone to local extinction.
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