Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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 Heimerdinger 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, Heimerdinger 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 drop shows that Vladimir helps Heimerdinger perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Heimerdinger is paired with Vladimir, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Vladimir does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played together with Vladimir on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Vladimir.
Moreover, when Heimerdinger plays with Vladimir on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Vladimir does a poor job of protecting Heimerdinger in teamfights.
There is no perfect synergy for Heimerdinger that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. Yet, Vladimir is a very typical teammate for Heimerdinger. By locking into the same side as Heimerdinger, he drops their win rate by -0.7% to 48.9%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Heimerdinger and Vladimir that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Vladimir has a lower difficulty than Heimerdinger. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Vladimir comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Heimerdinger and Vladimir together, you probably will not be giving your side very much attack damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Vladimir ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger to synergize with Vladimir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Heimerdinger and Vladimir synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Heimerdinger incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Vladimir than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average win rate of 48.9% when playing alongside Vladimir with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Heimerdinger players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.9% win rate overall.
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