You can release Shield of Durand even while crowd controlled.
You can use the minimap ally icons to cast Hero's Entrance.
You can use the step back from Justice Punch to dodge enemy spells.
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 Galio 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, Galio sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vladimir. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Vladimir helps Galio perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Galio tries to synergize with Vladimir, he gets a big decrease in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Vladimir does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Galio is played with Vladimir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Vladimir.
Moreover, when Galio plays with Vladimir on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Vladimir does a poor job of protecting Galio during team fights.
There is no perfect synergy for Galio that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, Vladimir is a relatively poor companion for Galio. By locking into the same side as Galio, he drops their win rate by -1.4% to 49.2%. This shows that there is a bad strategic relationship between Galio and Vladimir that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Vladimir has a greater difficulty than Galio. That means Galio players should be very careful when finding Vladimir comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, Galio players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Together, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by aligning Galio and Vladimir together, you may not be granting your side very much AD. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Vladimir teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Galio in order to pair well with Vladimir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Galio and Vladimir synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Galio combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Vladimir than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Galio had an average win rate of 49.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Vladimir with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Galio players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.2% winrate overall.
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