Cleavers are a powerful tool for killing neutral monsters. Instead of returning to base, farm neutral monsters until your ultimate can heal you.
A well-timed Sadism can bait enemy champions into attacking you even when they lack the damage to finish you.
Spirit Visage will increase the healing done by your ultimate and lower cooldowns on all of your abilities.
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 stat comparisons provided here show several influential Dr. Mundo against Vladimir matchup stats that may help you realize the differences between this set of champions. Dr. Mundo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vladimir’s ratio of NaN, showing that Dr. Mundo may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Vladimir..
Dr. Mundo often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Vladimir. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Dr. Mundo usually wins when trying to fight Vladimir, with a 51.2% win rate. Therefore, Dr. Mundo makes a good counter for Vladimir.
While Dr. Mundo does have a higher win rate compared to Vladimir, when on opposite teams, Dr. Mundo also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Dr. Mundo into Vladimir.
Moreover, Dr. Mundo also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vladimir. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Dr. Mundo vs Vladimir matchups, Dr. Mundo is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Dr. Mundo is a decent counter to Vladimir. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Dr. Mundo against Vladimir.
To learn all of the intricacies of Dr. Mundo in order to counter Vladimir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Dr. Mundo most often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Vladimir. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Dr. Mundo versus Vladimir build consist of Heartsteel, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Dr. Mundo combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Vladimir than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Dr. Mundo had an average winrate of 51.2% when playing against Vladimir with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Vladimir as Dr. Mundo, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Dr. Mundo vs Vladimir counters, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.2% winrate overall.
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