Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Items that counter Health stacking, such as Liandry's Torment and Blade of the Ruined King, are very effective against Vladimir.
Making Vladimir use Sanguine Pool at the start of a fight will maximize the Health cost of the ability to him.
Try to take Vladimir down before Hemoplague detonates, as it will heal him for each afflicted enemy Champion.
The stats shown here underscore some important Ahri vs. Vladimir matchup statistics that can help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vladimir’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Vladimir..
Ahri usually has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Typically, she takes less damage than Vladimir. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually loses when playing against Vladimir, with a 47.4% win rate. Thus, Ahri makes a poor counter to Vladimir.
While Ahri does have a lower winrate than Vladimir, when on opposite teams, Ahri also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Ahri into Vladimir.
Additionally, Ahri has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vladimir. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Vladimir matchups, Vladimir is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Ahri is a garbage counter for Vladimir. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ahri against Vladimir.
If you would like to truly master Ahri in order to counter Vladimir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri on average accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Vladimir. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Ahri versus Vladimir build include Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Ahri included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Vladimir than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Ahri had an average winrate of 47.4% battling Vladimir with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Vladimir as Ahri, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Ahri vs Vladimir counter picks, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.4% winrate overall.
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