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.
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
The Vladimir Azir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Azir, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Azir. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Azir helps Vladimir perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vladimir tries to synergize with Azir, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Azir does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Vladimir is played together with Azir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Azir.
Additionally, when Vladimir plays with Azir on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Azir does a poor job of protecting Vladimir during teamfights.
There is no ideal synergy for Vladimir that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Azir is a below average companion for Vladimir. By being on the same team as Vladimir, he lowers their win rate by -2.9% to 47.1%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Vladimir and Azir that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Azir has a greater difficulty than Vladimir. That means Vladimir players should be careful when enlisting Azir allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Vladimir and Azir together, you will not be giving your side enough support. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Azir teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vladimir in order to work well with Azir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Vladimir and Azir synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Vladimir combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Azir than with many other typical builds. In fact, Vladimir had an average win rate of 47.1% helping carry Azir with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Vladimir players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.1% win rate overall.
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