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.
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
The Vladimir Heimerdinger synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Heimerdinger, 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 Heimerdinger. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Heimerdinger helps Vladimir perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vladimir tries to synergize with Heimerdinger, he sees a small decrease in his total damage output. This could signal that Heimerdinger does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Vladimir is played with Heimerdinger 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 alongside Heimerdinger.
Additionally, when Vladimir plays with Heimerdinger on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Heimerdinger does a poor job of covering Vladimir in teamfights.
There is no perfect synergy for Vladimir that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Heimerdinger is a relatively poor companion for Vladimir. By playing on the same side as Vladimir, he lowers their win rate by -1.1% to 48.9%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Vladimir and Heimerdinger that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Heimerdinger has a greater difficulty than Vladimir. That means you must be careful when finding Heimerdinger comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Vladimir and Heimerdinger together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a great deal of attack damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Heimerdinger ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vladimir in order to work well with Heimerdinger during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Vladimir and Heimerdinger synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, and Cosmic Drive. When Vladimir incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Heimerdinger than with many other common builds. In fact, Vladimir had an average win rate of 48.9% helping carry Heimerdinger with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Vladimir players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.9% win rate overall.
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