Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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 Alistar 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, Alistar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vladimir. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Vladimir helps Alistar perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar is paired with Vladimir, he sees a little drop in his full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Vladimir does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played together with Vladimir on the same side, 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 Vladimir.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Vladimir on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Vladimir does a decent job of protecting Alistar during team fights.
There is no top companion for Alistar that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, overall, Vladimir is a pretty good ally for Alistar. By locking into the same side as Alistar, he increases their win rate by 1.5% to 50.9%. This demonstrates that there is a good bond between Alistar and Vladimir that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Vladimir has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Vladimir allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Alistar players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by grouping Alistar and Vladimir together, you will not be granting your team a great deal of AD. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Vladimir teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to synergize with Vladimir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to get in your Alistar and Vladimir synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Alistar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Vladimir than with many other common builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 50.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Vladimir with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Alistar players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.9% win rate overall.
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