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.
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
The Vladimir Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, 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 Xin Zhao. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Xin Zhao helps Vladimir perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vladimir tries to synergize with Xin Zhao, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This change may signal that Xin Zhao does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Vladimir is played alongside Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when Vladimir plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Vladimir in teamfights.
There is no one best ally for Vladimir that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Xin Zhao is a very typical companion for Vladimir. By being on the same team as Vladimir, he drops their win rate by -0.1% to 49.9%. This signals that there is a weak synergy between Vladimir and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Vladimir. That means Vladimir players don't need to be careful when lining up Xin Zhao teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, Vladimir players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by aligning Vladimir and Xin Zhao together, you probably will not be giving your team enough utility. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Xin Zhao ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Vladimir in order to pair well with Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Vladimir and Xin Zhao synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Stormsurge. When Vladimir included at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Xin Zhao than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vladimir boasted an average win rate of 49.9% helping carry Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.9% winrate overall.
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