Hecarim with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Hecarim and Vel'Koz
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Hecarim Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Hecarim vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Hecarim and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Hecarim with Vel'Koz
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
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.
Hecarim Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Hecarim in LoL
The Hecarim 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, Hecarim sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vel'Koz helps Hecarim perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Hecarim is an ally to Vel'Koz, he sees a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Vel'Koz does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Hecarim is played with Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Vel'Koz. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Hecarim plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of protecting Hecarim during team fights.
Synergies between Hecarim and Vel'Koz
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Is Hecarim better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no top companion for Hecarim that will always be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Vel'Koz is a very typical ally for Hecarim. By locking into the same team as Hecarim, he raises their win rate by 0.8% to 49.3%. This signals that there is only a small synergy between Hecarim and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Hecarim. That means Hecarim players must be careful when enlisting 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, Hecarim players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Hecarim and Vel'Koz together, you may not be granting your side much utility. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Hecarim to synergize with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to build first in your Hecarim and Vel'Koz synergy build consist of Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Hecarim included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Vel'Koz than with most other common item sets. In fact, Hecarim boasted an average winrate of 49.3% helping carry Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Vel'Koz with Hecarim are displayed for all skill levels combined. To scope the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.