Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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 on this page show some strategic Kai'Sa versus Vladimir matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences between these two champs. Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vladimir’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Vladimir..
Kai'Sa often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Vladimir. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when facing off against Vladimir, with a 46.3% win rate. As a result, Kai'Sa makes a poor counter for Vladimir.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower winrate than Vladimir, when facing one another, Kai'Sa also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Kai'Sa into Vladimir.
Furthermore, Kai'Sa also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vladimir. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Vladimir matchups, Vladimir is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Kai'Sa is a trash counter to Vladimir. Focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kai'Sa against Vladimir.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa in order to counter Vladimir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Vladimir. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Kai'Sa versus Vladimir build consist of Guardian Angel, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Vladimir than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average winrate of 46.3% battling Vladimir with this counter build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Vladimir as Kai'Sa, Kai'Sa players should take the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Kai'Sa vs Vladimir counterpicks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.3% winrate overall.
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