Pantheon with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Pantheon and Vel'Koz
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Pantheon Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Pantheon vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Pantheon and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Pantheon with Vel'Koz
Mortal Will activates after 5 spells or basic attacks - plan your way through fights to allow you to activate it more than once.
Whittle the enemy down with Comet Spears before you jump in.
If an enemy is going to get out of range of your Aegis Assault, you can recast the spell to immediately fire the shield slam.
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.
Pantheon Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Pantheon in LoL
The Pantheon 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, Pantheon sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Vel'Koz helps Pantheon perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pantheon plays on the same team as Vel'Koz, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This change may signal that Vel'Koz supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Pantheon is played together with Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Pantheon plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Pantheon in team fights.
Synergies between Pantheon and Vel'Koz
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Is Pantheon better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Pantheon that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, overall, Vel'Koz is a relatively poor teammate for Pantheon. By playing on the same team as Pantheon, he decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 47.9%. This shows that there is a harmful synergy between Pantheon and Vel'Koz that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a much greater difficulty compared to Pantheon. That means you should be very careful when enlisting Vel'Koz allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Pantheon and Vel'Koz together, you will not be providing your other allies much tankyness. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Vel'Koz ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Pantheon in order to work well with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to use in your Pantheon and Vel'Koz synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Maw of Malmortius, and Eclipse. When Pantheon bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Vel'Koz than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Pantheon boasted an average winrate of 47.9% helping carry Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should use the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Pantheon and Vel'Koz pairings, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.9% win rate overall.
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