Vladimir with Brand
How to Synergize Vladimir and Brand
based on 4,779 Vladimir with Brand pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vladimir Brand Synergy Summary
Best Vladimir vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vladimir and Brand
Tips for Playing as Vladimir with Brand
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 Brand Will Play
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Vladimir Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Vladimir in LoL
The Vladimir Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, 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 Brand. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Brand helps Vladimir perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vladimir plays on the same team as Brand, he observes a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This change may signal that Brand does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Vladimir is played alongside Brand on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Brand.
Moreover, when Vladimir plays with Brand on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Brand does a poor job of protecting Vladimir during teamfights.
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Is Vladimir better when played alongside Brand?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Vladimir that will always be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Brand is a very typical companion for Vladimir. By playing on the same team as Vladimir, he decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 49.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Vladimir and Brand that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Brand has a much lower diffuclty than Vladimir. That means Vladimir players don't need to be cautious when arranging Brand allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Vladimir players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Vladimir and Brand together, you may not be granting your team much AD. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Brand ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 Vladimir to pair well with Brand during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to include in your Vladimir and Brand synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, and Cosmic Drive. When Vladimir bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Brand than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vladimir had an average win rate of 49.7% helping carry Brand with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.7% win rate overall.
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