Aphelios with Vladimir
How to Synergize Aphelios and Vladimir
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Aphelios Vladimir Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Vladimir Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Vladimir
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Vladimir
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Vladimir Will Play
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.
Aphelios Vladimir Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vladimir as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios 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, Aphelios 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 drop shows that Vladimir helps Aphelios perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios is an ally to Vladimir, he gets a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Vladimir does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played alongside Vladimir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Vladimir. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Vladimir.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Vladimir on the same team, he usually 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 Aphelios during teamfights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Vladimir
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Vladimir?
There is no top champion pairing for Aphelios that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, overall, Vladimir is a very typical companion for Aphelios. By being on the same side as Aphelios, he decreases their win rate by -0.2% to 48.4%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Aphelios and Vladimir that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Vladimir has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Vladimir comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Aphelios and Vladimir together, you may not be giving your other allies a great deal of support. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Vladimir ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios to synergize with Vladimir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to build first in your Aphelios and Vladimir synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Aphelios incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Vladimir than with many other common builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average winrate of 48.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Vladimir with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Vladimir with Aphelios are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.