Katarina with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Katarina and Vel'Koz
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Katarina Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Vel'Koz
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina 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, Katarina sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Vel'Koz helps Katarina perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina tries to synergize with Vel'Koz, she observes a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Vel'Koz doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, she usually takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Katarina during teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Vel'Koz
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Katarina that will always be her best synergy. Yet, overall, Vel'Koz is a very typical ally for Katarina. By playing on the same side as Katarina, he lowers their win rate by -1.0% to 47.8%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Katarina and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Vel'Koz comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, Katarina players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Katarina and Vel'Koz together, you will not be granting your side much utility. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to work well with Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Katarina and Vel'Koz synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Katarina bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Vel'Koz than with many other common builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 47.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Katarina players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.8% win rate overall.
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