Lucian with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Lucian and Vel'Koz
based on 3,685 Lucian with Vel'Koz pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Lucian Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Lucian vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Lucian and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Lucian with Vel'Koz
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
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.
Lucian Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Lucian in LoL
The Lucian 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, Lucian sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Vel'Koz helps Lucian perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lucian plays on the same team as Vel'Koz, he gets a moderate decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Vel'Koz does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Lucian is played alongside Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Vel'Koz. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Lucian plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Lucian in teamfights.
Synergies between Lucian and Vel'Koz
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Is Lucian better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Lucian that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, Vel'Koz is a very typical companion for Lucian. By being on the same team as Lucian, he lowers their win rate by -0.4% to 48.4%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Lucian and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Lucian. That means you must be careful when finding Vel'Koz teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, Lucian players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Lucian and Vel'Koz together, you will not be providing your side a great deal of tankyness. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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
If you would like to truly master Lucian to synergize with Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to build first in your Lucian and Vel'Koz synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Essence Reaver, and Kraken Slayer. When Lucian incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Vel'Koz than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Lucian boasted an average win rate of 48.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.4% winrate overall.
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