Using Rupture on creeps in combination with Carnivore is a good way to gain Health and Mana.
If you're having difficulty feasting upon champions, try eating minions until you're larger.
Try to line up your attacks with Vorpal Spikes so that they kill minions and harass enemy champions at the same time.
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 Cho'Gath 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, Cho'Gath sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vladimir. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Vladimir helps Cho'Gath perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Cho'Gath tries to synergize with Vladimir, he observes a small decrease in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Vladimir does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Cho'Gath is played together with Vladimir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Vladimir.
Moreover, when Cho'Gath plays with Vladimir on the same team, he on average 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 Cho'Gath in teamfights.
There is no top companion for Cho'Gath that will always be his best synergy. However, Vladimir is a very typical companion for Cho'Gath. By locking into the same team as Cho'Gath, he improves their win rate by 0.5% to 50.0%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Cho'Gath and Vladimir that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Vladimir has a greater difficulty than Cho'Gath. That means you need to be cautious when finding Vladimir allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Cho'Gath players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Cho'Gath and Vladimir together, you will not be providing your side much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Vladimir ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 Cho'Gath in order to synergize with Vladimir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Cho'Gath and Vladimir synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Cho'Gath included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Vladimir than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Cho'Gath boasted an average winrate of 50.0% helping carry Vladimir with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Vladimir with Cho'Gath are shown for all ranked divisions. To narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.