Leona with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Leona and Vel'Koz
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Leona Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Leona with Vel'Koz
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Leona in LoL
The Leona 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, Leona sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Vel'Koz helps Leona perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona tries to synergize with Vel'Koz, she gets a small increase in her full damage output. This could signal that Vel'Koz supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played together with Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Vel'Koz. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Leona plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Leona in teamfights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no perfect companion for Leona that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Vel'Koz is a very typical companion for Leona. By being on the same team as Leona, he drops their win rate by -0.6% to 51.6%. This proves that there is a weak strategic relationship between Leona and Vel'Koz that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a much greater difficulty compared to Leona. That means you should be very careful when enlisting Vel'Koz allies to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by pairing Leona and Vel'Koz together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Vel'Koz ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Leona in order to synergize with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to include in your Leona and Vel'Koz synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Leona included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Vel'Koz than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 51.6% helping carry Vel'Koz with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Leona players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.6% winrate overall.
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