Broken Covenant Vladimir

Vladimir is one of those scaling champions where the right skin makes the late-game feel earned. First time I saw Broken Covenant Vladimir in a ranked game – Diamond 2 lobby, early 2023 around patch 13.5 – I actually paused the replay just to look at the splash. Gothic cathedral stained-glass energy. Vampiric noble with gold filigree trim. Thats the concept you’d sketch if you were designing Vladimir from scratch today and had full creative freedom.

What Broken Covenant Vladimir changes in-game

The VFX upgrade is the whole point here. This Epic skin at 1350 RP does what it needs to do: every ability got a proper rework, not just a recolor.

Q – Transfusion – pulls in dark crimson energy with gold covenant rune edges on the return. Reads clean in lane even when the screen has three overlapping ability effects going at once. The W – Sanguine Pool – transforms the blood puddle into something more ceremonial, like spilled consecrated crimson across cathedral marble. Honestly it looks more deliberate than base Vladimir’s pool, which always had a slightly budget feel in teamfights. The E – Tides of Blood – charge stacks are where I think the VFX team put the most work. Each stack pulses with a cracked stained-glass sigil pattern. Could be wrong here but this is one of the cleaner charge-stack animations in the Epic tier right now.

The ult – Hemoplague – spreads in deep violet-red with fracture-glass texture throughout. Visible. Distinct. In a late-game teamfight with five abilities firing, you can still track it on a busy Rift. That matters when Vladimir is your primary scaling threat in the comp.

New recall too. Vladimir opens a dark covenant tome and gets drawn into a ritual. Above average for an Epic – not Legendary theatrics, but worth watching twice before you start spamming games with it. No new voice lines, base VO only, standard for this price point. (Random aside: the sound design on the E stacks has this low resonant hum I didn’t catch until someone pointed it out in a Reddit thread, and now I hear it every single game.)

Release date, splash art, and the Broken Covenant line

Broken Covenant Vladimir released March 9, 2023. Augusto Quirino and West Studio handled the splash art. Sharp work – Vladimir enthroned in fractured stained-glass architecture, gold-and-crimson palette locked in. The full Broken Covenant set dropped that same patch: Miss Fortune, Rakan, Xayah, Cho’Gath, Nocturne, Riven all landed together.

The Broken Covenant skinline is one of Riot’s more coherent recent themes. Gothic, vampiric, dark-faith aesthetic – Vladimir fits it naturally. Immortal blood mage with aristocratic bearing dropping into a corrupted holy order. It just works. Been daily driving this skin in Diamond since release and it holds up, doesn’t feel dated the way some 2022 Epics already do.

Chromas

8 chromas total. Three are worth calling out specifically. Obsidian is the obvious aggressive pick: near-black model with gold accents, dark priest energy for ranked games on the Rift. Tanzanite goes deep purple and honestly think this is the strongest chroma in the set – enhances the mage-lord angle over pure vampire, and the color reads cleanly in most comps without looking like a completely different skin. Ruby pushes Vladimir into full blood-red territory, thematic for his lore but can get visually muddy during heavy jungle clear or backline dive situations. Five other options exist if none of those land for you. Shop has the complete selection, permanent availability.

Is Broken Covenant Vladimir worth 1350 RP?

So is it worth it? For Vladimir mains – yes, no question. The VFX refresh across Q through R makes the kit feel designed rather than default, the Broken Covenant skinline suits Vladimir better than half his older catalog does, and 8 chromas give real customization. Real talk though: if you’re spamming Vladimir to hard-climb out of plat on backline poke into Hemoplague procs, base skin carries you just as far. This one’s for mains who care about the visual package as much as the scaling. 1350 RP feels fair for what you get. Shop has it permanently.