Blitzcrank with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Blitzcrank and Vel'Koz
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Blitzcrank Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Blitzcrank and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Blitzcrank with Vel'Koz
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
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.
Blitzcrank Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Blitzcrank in LoL
The Blitzcrank 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, Blitzcrank sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vel'Koz helps Blitzcrank perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Blitzcrank is paired with Vel'Koz, he sees a small increase in his full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Vel'Koz supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Blitzcrank is played together with Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Blitzcrank plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of protecting Blitzcrank in team fights.
Synergies between Blitzcrank and Vel'Koz
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Is Blitzcrank better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no perfect companion for Blitzcrank that will always be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Vel'Koz is a good teammate for Blitzcrank. By locking into the same side as Blitzcrank, he improves their win rate by 1.7% to 53.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a good synergy between Blitzcrank and Vel'Koz that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a much greater difficulty compared to Blitzcrank. That means you must be very careful when arranging Vel'Koz allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, Blitzcrank players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Blitzcrank and Vel'Koz together, you may not be giving your other allies very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Blitzcrank in order to synergize with Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to focus on in your Blitzcrank and Vel'Koz synergy build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Knight's Vow. When Blitzcrank used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Vel'Koz than with many other common item sets. In fact, Blitzcrank had an average win rate of 53.3% when playing alongside Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Blitzcrank players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Blitzcrank and Vel'Koz pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Vel'Koz with Blitzcrank are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.