Vladimir with Kog'Maw
How to Synergize Vladimir and Kog'Maw
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Vladimir Kog'Maw Synergy Summary
Best Vladimir vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vladimir and Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Vladimir with Kog'Maw
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.
Advice to Understand How Kog'Maw Will Play
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
Vladimir Kog'Maw Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kog'Maw as Vladimir in LoL
The Vladimir Kog'Maw synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kog'Maw, 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 Kog'Maw. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kog'Maw helps Vladimir perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vladimir tries to synergize with Kog'Maw, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Kog'Maw provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Vladimir is played together with Kog'Maw 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 synergisticly with Kog'Maw.
Additionally, when Vladimir plays with Kog'Maw on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Kog'Maw does a poor job of covering Vladimir in team fights.
Synergies between Vladimir and Kog'Maw
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Is Vladimir better when played alongside Kog'Maw?
There is no ideal companion for Vladimir that will no matter what be his best teammate. Yet, Kog'Maw is a below average companion for Vladimir. By being on the same team as Vladimir, he decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 48.5%. This demonstrates that there is a negative strategic relationship between Vladimir and Kog'Maw that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Kog'Maw has a lower difficulty than Vladimir. That means Vladimir players don't need to be very careful when arranging Kog'Maw allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, Vladimir players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Vladimir and Kog'Maw together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a lot of support. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Kog'Maw teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vladimir in order to synergize with Kog'Maw during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to include in your Vladimir and Kog'Maw synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, and Riftmaker. When Vladimir bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Kog'Maw than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vladimir boasted an average win rate of 48.5% when playing alongside Kog'Maw with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating 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. Of all the rune combinations players used for Vladimir and Kog'Maw pairings, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.5% winrate overall.
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