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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 Naafiri Vladimir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vladimir, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Naafiri sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vladimir. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Vladimir helps Naafiri perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Naafiri is an ally to Vladimir, they gets a moderate decrease in their full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Vladimir doesn't help cover for them to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played together with Vladimir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Vladimir.
Additionally, when Naafiri plays with Vladimir on the same team, they on average takes a little less damage than when they fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Vladimir does a decent job of protecting Naafiri during teamfights.
There is no perfect ally for Naafiri that will always be their best ally. However, overall, Vladimir is a terrible ally for Naafiri. By playing on the same team as Naafiri, he drops their win rate by -3.2% to 47.0%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Naafiri and Vladimir that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Vladimir has a much greater difficulty compared to Naafiri. That means you need to be very careful when enlisting Vladimir comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Naafiri and Vladimir together, you may not be providing your other allies a great deal of crowd control. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Vladimir ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri to work well with Vladimir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Naafiri and Vladimir synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Naafiri bought at least these three great items in their build, they did significantly better as an ally of Vladimir than with most other common item sets. In fact, Naafiri had an average winrate of 47.0% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Vladimir with these items in their kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.0% winrate overall.
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