Olaf with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Olaf and Vel'Koz
based on 685 Olaf with Vel'Koz pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Olaf Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Olaf vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Olaf and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Olaf with Vel'Koz
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
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.
Olaf Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Olaf in LoL
The Olaf 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, Olaf sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Vel'Koz helps Olaf perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Olaf is paired with Vel'Koz, he gets a small decrease in his full damage output. This could indicate that Vel'Koz does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Olaf is played alongside Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Olaf plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Olaf during team fights.
Synergies between Olaf and Vel'Koz
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Is Olaf better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Olaf that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Vel'Koz is a superb companion for Olaf. By locking into the same side as Olaf, he improves their win rate by 3.3% to 52.3%. This signals that there is a very real bond between Olaf and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a much greater difficulty compared to Olaf. That means Olaf players need to be cautious when enlisting Vel'Koz teammates to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Olaf and Vel'Koz together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of protection for burst damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Olaf in order to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to build first in your Olaf and Vel'Koz synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Ravenous Hydra, and Death's Dance. When Olaf used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Vel'Koz than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Olaf boasted an average win rate of 52.3% when playing alongside Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Olaf players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.3% winrate overall.
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