Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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 Gragas 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, Gragas 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 negative change shows that Vladimir helps Gragas perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas plays on the same team as Vladimir, he observes a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This change could signal that Vladimir does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played together with Vladimir on the same side, 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 Gragas plays with Vladimir on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Vladimir does a poor job of covering Gragas during team fights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Gragas that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, Vladimir is a very typical companion for Gragas. By being on the same team as Gragas, he lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 47.3%. This proves that there is a weak strategic relationship between Gragas and Vladimir that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Vladimir has a greater difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players need to be cautious when finding Vladimir teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Gragas and Vladimir together, you will not be giving your other allies much sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Vladimir ally's skill level, 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 should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Gragas to work well with Vladimir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to focus on in your Gragas and Vladimir synergy build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas combined at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Vladimir than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 47.3% helping carry Vladimir with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.3% winrate overall.
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