Irelia with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Irelia and Vel'Koz
based on 1,918 Irelia with Vel'Koz pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Irelia Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Irelia vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Irelia and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Irelia with Vel'Koz
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Irelia in LoL
The Irelia 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, Irelia sees a very large drop in her 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 Irelia perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Irelia is paired with Vel'Koz, she observes a barely noticable drop in her full damage output. This change could signal that Vel'Koz does not provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played alongside Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Irelia plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of protecting Irelia during team fights.
Synergies between Irelia and Vel'Koz
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Is Irelia better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no one best ally for Irelia that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. Yet, overall, Vel'Koz is a very typical ally for Irelia. By locking into the same side as Irelia, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 49.8%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Irelia and Vel'Koz that results in them performing at the same level together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Irelia. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Vel'Koz teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, Irelia players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Irelia and Vel'Koz together, you may not be giving your other teammates much tankyness. Plan to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Vel'Koz ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Irelia to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to focus on in your Irelia and Vel'Koz synergy build include Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Irelia bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when paired up with Vel'Koz than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Irelia boasted an average win rate of 49.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Irelia players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.8% win rate overall.
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