Darius with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Darius and Vel'Koz
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Darius Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Darius and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Darius with Vel'Koz
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Darius in LoL
The Darius 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, Darius sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Vel'Koz helps Darius perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Darius plays on the same team as Vel'Koz, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This may signal that Vel'Koz helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Darius is played alongside Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Darius plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Darius during teamfights.
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Is Darius better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no one best companion for Darius that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, Vel'Koz is a decent teammate for Darius. By playing on the same side as Darius, he improves their win rate by 1.4% to 50.6%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Darius and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a much greater difficulty compared to Darius. That means Darius players should be cautious when finding Vel'Koz allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Darius and Vel'Koz together, you probably will not be providing your side a lot of support. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Vel'Koz ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Darius to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Darius and Vel'Koz synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Dead Man's Plate, and Sundered Sky. When Darius used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Vel'Koz than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Darius boasted an average winrate of 50.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Darius players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.6% winrate overall.
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