Vladimir with Katarina
How to Synergize Vladimir and Katarina
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Vladimir Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Vladimir vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vladimir and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Vladimir with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Vladimir Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Vladimir in LoL
The Vladimir Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Katarina helps Vladimir perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vladimir tries to synergize with Katarina, he sees a moderate decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Katarina doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Vladimir is played together with Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Moreover, when Vladimir plays with Katarina on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Katarina does a decent job of covering Vladimir during teamfights.
Synergies between Vladimir and Katarina
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Is Vladimir better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no one best champion pairing for Vladimir that will always be his top teammate. However, overall, Katarina is a very bad ally for Vladimir. By playing on the same side as Vladimir, she decreases their win rate by -3.7% to 46.3%. This signals that there is a very bad bond between Vladimir and Katarina that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Vladimir. That means Vladimir players must be careful when lining up Katarina comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working alongside, Vladimir players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Vladimir and Katarina together, you may not be providing your other teammates very much utility. We recommend you have other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Vladimir in order to work well with Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Vladimir and Katarina synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Vladimir bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Katarina than with most other common builds. In fact, Vladimir had an average winrate of 46.3% when playing alongside Katarina with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Vladimir and Katarina pairings, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.3% win rate overall.
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