Caitlyn with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Vel'Koz
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Caitlyn Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Vel'Koz
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn 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, Caitlyn sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Vel'Koz helps Caitlyn perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Caitlyn is an ally to Vel'Koz, she sees a little decrease in her full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Vel'Koz does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played with Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Caitlyn plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of protecting Caitlyn in teamfights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Caitlyn that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, Vel'Koz is a very typical teammate for Caitlyn. By locking into the same side as Caitlyn, he raises their win rate by 0.8% to 50.1%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Caitlyn and Vel'Koz that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Caitlyn. That means you need to be cautious when finding Vel'Koz comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Caitlyn players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Caitlyn and Vel'Koz together, you may not be providing your other allies enough engage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Caitlyn to synergize with Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Caitlyn and Vel'Koz synergy build include Infinity Edge, Stormrazor, and The Collector. When Caitlyn included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Vel'Koz than with many other common builds. In fact, Caitlyn had an average winrate of 50.1% helping carry Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Caitlyn players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Caitlyn and Vel'Koz pairings, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Vel'Koz with Caitlyn are presented for all ranked divisions. To scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.