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.
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
The Vladimir Akshan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akshan, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Vladimir sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akshan. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Akshan helps Vladimir perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vladimir is paired with Akshan, he gets a small increase in his full damage output. This could indicate that Akshan provides protection for him to deal more damage or that their presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Vladimir is played alongside Akshan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Akshan.
Additionally, when Vladimir plays with Akshan on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Akshan does a poor job of covering Vladimir during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Vladimir that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, Akshan is a pretty good companion for Vladimir. By being on the same side as Vladimir, they improves their win rate by 1.5% to 51.5%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Vladimir and Akshan that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Vladimir. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Akshan allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Vladimir and Akshan together, you will not be providing your team very much attack damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Akshan ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Vladimir to pair well with Akshan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Vladimir and Akshan synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, and Cosmic Drive. When Vladimir combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Akshan than with most other typical builds. In fact, Vladimir boasted an average winrate of 51.5% helping carry Akshan with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Vladimir players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.5% win rate overall.
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