Vladimir with K'Sante
How to Synergize Vladimir and K'Sante
based on 1,556 Vladimir with K'Sante pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vladimir K'Sante Synergy Summary
Best Vladimir vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vladimir and K'Sante
Tips for Playing as Vladimir with K'Sante
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 K'Sante Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Vladimir K'Sante Synergy Stats
How to Play with K'Sante as Vladimir in LoL
The Vladimir K'Sante synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with K'Sante, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with K'Sante. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that K'Sante helps Vladimir perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vladimir is paired with K'Sante, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that K'Sante helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that their presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Vladimir is played alongside K'Sante on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without K'Sante. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside K'Sante.
Additionally, when Vladimir plays with K'Sante on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that K'Sante does a poor job of covering Vladimir in teamfights.
Synergies between Vladimir and K'Sante
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Is Vladimir better when played alongside K'Sante?
There is no one best ally for Vladimir that will always be his top teammate. However, overall, K'Sante is a very bad companion for Vladimir. By locking into the same team as Vladimir, they drops their win rate by -3.3% to 46.7%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Vladimir and K'Sante that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
K'Sante has a greater difficulty than Vladimir. That means Vladimir players should be very careful when lining up K'Sante comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Vladimir and K'Sante together, you will not be providing your other teammates much utility. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your K'Sante teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Vladimir in order to work well with K'Sante during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your Vladimir and K'Sante synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Riftmaker. When Vladimir used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside K'Sante than with many other common builds. In fact, Vladimir had an average winrate of 46.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to K'Sante with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing 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 that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.7% winrate overall.
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