Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
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.
The Aatrox Vladimir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vladimir, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aatrox sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vladimir. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vladimir helps Aatrox perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aatrox plays on the same team as Vladimir, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Vladimir does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Aatrox is played together with Vladimir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Vladimir.
Additionally, when Aatrox plays with Vladimir on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Vladimir does a decent job of protecting Aatrox in team fights.
There is no one best companion for Aatrox that will always be his ideal synergy. However, Vladimir is a good teammate for Aatrox. By playing on the same team as Aatrox, he raises their win rate by 2.2% to 52.6%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Aatrox and Vladimir that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Vladimir has a greater difficulty than Aatrox. That means Aatrox players need to be careful when finding Vladimir comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working on the same side, Aatrox players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Aatrox and Vladimir together, you will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of support. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Vladimir ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aatrox to pair well with Vladimir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Aatrox and Vladimir synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Sundered Sky. When Aatrox incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Vladimir than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Aatrox had an average win rate of 52.6% helping carry Vladimir with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Aatrox players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Revitalize, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.6% winrate overall.
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