Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
When Kindred uses Lamb's Respite get inside, it stops all champions from dying.
Kindred is fragile - turn the pressure up on her, and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Clear the Hunts Wolf activates on jungle camps to slow down Kindred's damage output.
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several important Vladimir versus Kindred matchup stats that can help us realize the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Vladimir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kindred’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Vladimir may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kindred..
Vladimir often has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Kindred. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vladimir usually loses when playing against Kindred, with a 48.1% win rate. As a result, Vladimir makes a bad counter to Kindred.
While Vladimir does have a lower winrate compared to Kindred, when they face off with one another, Vladimir also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Vladimir into Kindredas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vladimir also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kindred. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vladimir vs Kindred matchups, Kindred is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Vladimir is a somewhat poor counter to Kindred. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vladimir against Kindred.
If you would like to truly master Vladimir in order to counter Kindred during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vladimir on average racks up much more CS relative to Kindred. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Vladimir versus Kindred build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Stormsurge. When Vladimir incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Kindred than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Vladimir boasted an average win rate of 48.1% when playing against Kindred with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Kindred as Vladimir, Vladimir players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Vladimir vs Kindred face-offs, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.1% winrate overall.
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