Aatrox with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Aatrox and Vel'Koz
based on 3,885 Aatrox with Vel'Koz pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Aatrox Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Aatrox vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aatrox and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Aatrox with Vel'Koz
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
Advice to Understand How Vel'Koz Will Play
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Aatrox Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Aatrox in LoL
The Aatrox Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aatrox sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Vel'Koz helps Aatrox perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aatrox is an ally to Vel'Koz, he observes a small increase in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Vel'Koz supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Aatrox is played with Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Vel'Koz. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Aatrox plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Aatrox in team fights.
Synergies between Aatrox and Vel'Koz
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Is Aatrox better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Aatrox that will always be his top ally. However, Vel'Koz is a very typical teammate for Aatrox. By playing on the same team as Aatrox, he lowers their win rate by -0.8% to 49.6%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Aatrox and Vel'Koz that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a much greater difficulty compared to Aatrox. That means you must be careful when arranging Vel'Koz teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Aatrox players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Aatrox and Vel'Koz together, you will not be giving your other allies a great deal of cover. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Aatrox to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to focus on in your Aatrox and Vel'Koz synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Spear of Shojin. When Aatrox used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Vel'Koz than with many other common item sets. In fact, Aatrox boasted an average winrate of 49.6% when playing alongside Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Aatrox players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Revitalize, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.6% winrate overall.
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