Kai'Sa with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Kai'Sa and Vel'Koz
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Kai'Sa Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kai'Sa and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa with Vel'Koz
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Kai'Sa in LoL
The Kai'Sa 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, Kai'Sa 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 negative change shows that Vel'Koz helps Kai'Sa perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kai'Sa is paired with Vel'Koz, she observes a barely noticable drop in her complete damage output. This difference could signal that Vel'Koz does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kai'Sa is played together with Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Vel'Koz. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Kai'Sa plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of protecting Kai'Sa in teamfights.
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Is Kai'Sa better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Kai'Sa that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. Yet, overall, Vel'Koz is a not very good companion for Kai'Sa. By locking into the same team as Kai'Sa, he lowers their win rate by -1.2% to 45.3%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful synergy between Kai'Sa and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Kai'Sa. That means Kai'Sa players need to be careful when finding Vel'Koz teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Kai'Sa and Vel'Koz together, you will not be providing your team enough crowd control. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 Kai'Sa in order to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Kai'Sa and Vel'Koz synergy build include Bloodthirster, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Vel'Koz than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average winrate of 45.3% when playing alongside Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Kai'Sa players should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.3% win rate overall.
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