Rakan with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Rakan and Vel'Koz
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Rakan Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Rakan vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Vel'Koz
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
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.
Rakan Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan 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, Rakan sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Vel'Koz helps Rakan perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rakan is paired with Vel'Koz, he sees a clear improvement in his complete damage output. This could indicate that Vel'Koz supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Rakan 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 synergisticly with Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Rakan plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Rakan during team fights.
Synergies between Rakan and Vel'Koz
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no ideal companion for Rakan that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Vel'Koz is a superb companion for Rakan. By locking into the same team as Rakan, he raises their win rate by 4.6% to 55.2%. This shows that there is a very real bond between Rakan and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Rakan. That means Rakan players need to be very careful when lining up Vel'Koz allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Rakan and Vel'Koz together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of AD. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Rakan in order to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Rakan and Vel'Koz synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Knight's Vow. When Rakan included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Vel'Koz than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Rakan boasted an average win rate of 55.2% when playing alongside Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Ultimate Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Rakan and Vel'Koz pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 55.2% winrate overall.
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