You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
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.
The Yorick Vladimir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vladimir, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Yorick sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vladimir. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vladimir helps Yorick perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Yorick tries to synergize with Vladimir, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This change could indicate that Vladimir doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Yorick is played with Vladimir 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 synergisticly with Vladimir.
Moreover, when Yorick plays with Vladimir on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Vladimir does a decent job of protecting Yorick during teamfights.
There is no perfect companion for Yorick that will always be his best synergy. However, Vladimir is a very typical companion for Yorick. By playing on the same team as Yorick, he lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 49.8%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Yorick and Vladimir that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Vladimir has a greater difficulty than Yorick. That means you should be careful when lining up Vladimir comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Yorick and Vladimir together, you may not be granting your other teammates enough crowd control. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Vladimir ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Yorick in order to pair well with Vladimir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to include in your Yorick and Vladimir synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Yorick incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Vladimir than with most other common item sets. In fact, Yorick had an average win rate of 49.8% when playing alongside Vladimir with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Yorick players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Legend: Bloodline, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Yorick and Vladimir pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.8% winrate overall.
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