Brand with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Brand and Vel'Koz
based on 2,695 Brand with Vel'Koz pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Brand Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Brand with Vel'Koz
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Brand in LoL
The Brand 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, Brand sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Vel'Koz helps Brand perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Brand tries to synergize with Vel'Koz, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Vel'Koz doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played alongside Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Brand plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, he typically takes more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Brand in team fights.
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Is Brand better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no one best companion for Brand that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, overall, Vel'Koz is a not very good companion for Brand. By locking into the same team as Brand, he drops their win rate by -1.4% to 50.0%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Brand and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a much greater difficulty compared to Brand. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Vel'Koz allies to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Brand and Vel'Koz together, you may not be giving your side very much AD. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Brand in order to synergize with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Brand and Vel'Koz synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Vel'Koz than with many other common builds. In fact, Brand had an average winrate of 50.0% helping carry Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.0% win rate overall.
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