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.
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
The Vladimir Sylas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sylas, 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 Sylas. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Sylas helps Vladimir perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vladimir is an ally to Sylas, he observes a little drop in his complete damage output. This change could signal that Sylas does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Vladimir is played together with Sylas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Sylas.
Additionally, when Vladimir plays with Sylas on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Sylas does a decent job of covering Vladimir during team fights.
There is no one best companion for Vladimir that will always be his best synergy. Yet, Sylas is a terrible ally for Vladimir. By locking into the same team as Vladimir, he lowers their win rate by -5.0% to 45.0%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Vladimir and Sylas that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Sylas has a lower difficulty than Vladimir. That means Vladimir players don't need to be cautious when lining up Sylas teammates to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Vladimir and Sylas together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of utility. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Sylas ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vladimir to work well with Sylas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to use in your Vladimir and Sylas synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Vladimir combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Sylas than with most other common item sets. In fact, Vladimir had an average winrate of 45.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sylas with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating 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. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.0% win rate overall.
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