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.
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
The Vladimir Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, 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 Nidalee. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nidalee helps Vladimir perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vladimir is paired with Nidalee, he sees a little drop in his total damage output. This difference could indicate that Nidalee does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Vladimir is played together with Nidalee on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nidalee.
Additionally, when Vladimir plays with Nidalee on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Nidalee does a decent job of protecting Vladimir during team fights.
There is no one best companion for Vladimir that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, Nidalee is a very bad ally for Vladimir. By locking into the same side as Vladimir, she drops their win rate by -7.2% to 42.8%. This signals that there is a terrible bond between Vladimir and Nidalee that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Nidalee has a greater difficulty than Vladimir. That means Vladimir players should be very careful when lining up Nidalee teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working on the same side, Vladimir players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Vladimir and Nidalee together, you probably will not be providing your other allies much support. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Nidalee ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Vladimir in order to pair well with Nidalee during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Vladimir and Nidalee synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Riftmaker. When Vladimir included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Nidalee than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Vladimir had an average win rate of 42.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nidalee with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip 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 players used for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 42.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Nidalee with Vladimir are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.