Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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 Leona 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, Leona sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vladimir. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Vladimir helps Leona perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona plays on the same team as Vladimir, she gets a little drop in her full damage output. This may demonstrate that Vladimir does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played together with Vladimir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Vladimir.
Moreover, when Leona plays with Vladimir on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Vladimir does a decent job of protecting Leona during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Leona that will always be her #1 teammate. However, Vladimir is a relatively poor teammate for Leona. By playing on the same team as Leona, he lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 50.7%. This shows that there is a negative strategic relationship between Leona and Vladimir that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Vladimir has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means you should be very careful when enlisting Vladimir teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Leona players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by grouping Leona and Vladimir together, you will not be granting your team much AD. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Vladimir ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Leona in order to work well with Vladimir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to use in your Leona and Vladimir synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Vladimir than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 50.7% helping carry Vladimir with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Leona players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.7% win rate overall.
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