Akali with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Akali and Vel'Koz
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Akali Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Akali with Vel'Koz
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
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.
Akali Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Akali in LoL
The Akali Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akali sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Vel'Koz helps Akali perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akali is paired with Vel'Koz, she gets a small decrease in her full damage dealt. This could signal that Vel'Koz does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played together with Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of protecting Akali in teamfights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no ideal synergy for Akali that will always be her best synergy. Yet, Vel'Koz is a very typical companion for Akali. By playing on the same team as Akali, he lowers their win rate by -0.4% to 48.7%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Akali and Vel'Koz that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Akali. That means Akali players must be very careful when arranging Vel'Koz comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Akali and Vel'Koz together, you will not be granting your other teammates a lot of protection for burst damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Akali to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Akali and Vel'Koz synergy build include Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Akali incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Vel'Koz than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Akali boasted an average winrate of 48.7% when playing alongside Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.7% win rate overall.
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