Across the sands of Shurima, a chorus of howls rings out. It is the call of the dune hounds, voracious predators who form packs and compete for the right to hunt in these barren lands. Among them, one pack stands above all, for they are driven not only by canine instincts, but by the ancient power of the Darkin.
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 shown on this page feature several significant Naafiri against Vladimir matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Vladimir’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Vladimir..
Naafiri normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their counter does. Commonly, they receives less damage than Vladimir. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Naafiri usually fairs equally well when facing off against Vladimir, with a 49.1% win rate. Thus, Naafiri makes an ok counter for Vladimir.
While Naafiri does have a lower win rate compared to Vladimir, when facing one another, Naafiri also has a much lower learning curve that makes them a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Naafiri into Vladimir.
Additionally, Naafiri has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vladimir. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Vladimir matchups, Vladimir is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Naafiri is a somewhat poor counter for Vladimir. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Naafiri against Vladimir.
To learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri in order to counter Vladimir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri usually picks up a similar amount of CS as Vladimir. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Naafiri versus Vladimir build include Edge of Night, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Naafiri bought at least these three pieces in their build, they performed significantly better versus Vladimir than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Naafiri had an average winrate of 49.1% when countering Vladimir with these items in their kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Vladimir as Naafiri, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Naafiri vs Vladimir battles, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.1% winrate overall.
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