Orianna with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Orianna and Vel'Koz
based on 664 Orianna with Vel'Koz pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Orianna Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Orianna vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Orianna and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Orianna with Vel'Koz
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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.
Orianna Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Orianna in LoL
The Orianna 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, Orianna 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 drop shows that Vel'Koz helps Orianna perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Orianna tries to synergize with Vel'Koz, she gets a small decrease in her total damage output. This difference could indicate that Vel'Koz doesn't help cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played together with Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Orianna plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, she typically receives more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Orianna in teamfights.
Synergies between Orianna and Vel'Koz
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Is Orianna better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no ideal synergy for Orianna that will 100% of the time be her best ally. However, overall, Vel'Koz is a very typical ally for Orianna. By being on the same team as Orianna, he improves their win rate by 0.7% to 48.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Orianna and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Orianna. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Vel'Koz comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by grouping Orianna and Vel'Koz together, you may not be giving your team very much engage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Vel'Koz ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Orianna in order to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to prioritize in your Orianna and Vel'Koz synergy build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Vel'Koz than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Orianna had an average winrate of 48.2% when playing alongside Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Orianna and Vel'Koz pairings, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Vel'Koz with Orianna are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.