Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
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 Kalista Vladimir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vladimir, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kalista sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vladimir. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Vladimir helps Kalista perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kalista is an ally to Vladimir, she observes a barely noticable drop in her complete damage output. This may indicate that Vladimir does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played together with Vladimir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Vladimir. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Vladimir.
Additionally, when Kalista plays with Vladimir on the same side, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Vladimir does a decent job of covering Kalista in team fights.
There is no top synergy for Kalista that will no matter what be her best teammate. However, Vladimir is a top-tier ally for Kalista. By playing on the same team as Kalista, he raises their win rate by 3.3% to 50.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a very real bond between Kalista and Vladimir that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Vladimir has a lower difficulty than Kalista. That means Kalista players don't need to be cautious when finding Vladimir allies to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Kalista and Vladimir together, you may not be providing your other allies enough support. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Vladimir ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kalista in order to work well with Vladimir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Kalista and Vladimir synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kalista incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Vladimir than with most other common builds. In fact, Kalista had an average win rate of 50.7% when playing alongside Vladimir with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Kalista players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Vladimir with Kalista are given for all skill levels, merged. To narrow the statistics and builds to a specific division, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.