Vladimir with Bard
How to Synergize Vladimir and Bard
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Vladimir Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vladimir and Bard
Tips for Playing as Vladimir with Bard
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.
Advice to Understand How Bard Will Play
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Vladimir Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Vladimir in LoL
The Vladimir Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, 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 Bard. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Bard helps Vladimir perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vladimir plays on the same team as Bard, he sees a small increase in his full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Bard helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Vladimir is played alongside Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Bard.
Additionally, when Vladimir plays with Bard on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Bard does a poor job of covering Vladimir in teamfights.
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Is Vladimir better when played alongside Bard?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Vladimir that will always be his best synergy. Yet, Bard is a top-tier ally for Vladimir. By playing on the same team as Vladimir, he increases their win rate by 3.0% to 53.0%. This shows that there is a very real strategic relationship between Vladimir and Bard that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Vladimir. That means you should be cautious when lining up Bard comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Vladimir and Bard together, you may not be giving your team a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Bard ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vladimir to synergize with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master 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 ideal items to get in your Vladimir and Bard synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Stormsurge. When Vladimir combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Bard than with many other typical builds. In fact, Vladimir had an average winrate of 53.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip 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 combinations players chose for Vladimir and Bard pairings, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.0% winrate overall.
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