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.
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
The Vladimir Nasus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nasus, 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 Nasus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nasus helps Vladimir perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vladimir is paired with Nasus, he observes a little drop in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Nasus does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Vladimir is played alongside Nasus on the same side, 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 Nasus.
Additionally, when Vladimir plays with Nasus on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Nasus does a decent job of protecting Vladimir during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Vladimir that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Nasus is a below average teammate for Vladimir. By playing on the same team as Vladimir, he decreases their win rate by -1.1% to 48.9%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Vladimir and Nasus that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Nasus has a lower difficulty than Vladimir. That means Vladimir players don't need to be careful when enlisting Nasus teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Vladimir players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Vladimir and Nasus together, you will not be giving your other allies enough utility. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Nasus ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vladimir in order to synergize with Nasus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Vladimir and Nasus synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Liandry's Torment. When Vladimir used at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Nasus than with most other common builds. In fact, Vladimir had an average win rate of 48.9% helping carry Nasus with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Vladimir players should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Vladimir and Nasus pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Nasus with Vladimir are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.