Galio with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Galio and Vel'Koz
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Galio Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Galio and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Galio with Vel'Koz
You can release Shield of Durand even while crowd controlled.
You can use the minimap ally icons to cast Hero's Entrance.
You can use the step back from Justice Punch to dodge enemy spells.
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.
Galio Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Galio in LoL
The Galio 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, Galio sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vel'Koz helps Galio perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Galio is paired with Vel'Koz, he observes a little decrease in his complete damage output. This difference may signal that Vel'Koz does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Galio is played together with Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Galio plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of protecting Galio during team fights.
Synergies between Galio and Vel'Koz
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Is Galio better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Galio that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, overall, Vel'Koz is a very typical companion for Galio. By being on the same side as Galio, he drops their win rate by -0.2% to 50.4%. This shows that there is only a small synergy between Galio and Vel'Koz that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Galio. That means Galio players need to be very careful when lining up Vel'Koz comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Galio players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Galio and Vel'Koz together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates much attack damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Vel'Koz ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Galio in order to work well with Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Galio and Vel'Koz synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Galio used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Vel'Koz than with most other typical builds. In fact, Galio boasted an average win rate of 50.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Galio and Vel'Koz pairings, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.4% win rate overall.
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