Samira with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Samira and Vel'Koz
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Samira Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Samira vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Samira and Vel'Koz
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.
Samira Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Samira in LoL
The Samira 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, Samira sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Vel'Koz helps Samira perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Samira is an ally to Vel'Koz, she sees a barely noticable drop in her complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Vel'Koz does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Samira is played together with Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Samira plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Samira during teamfights.
Synergies between Samira and Vel'Koz
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Is Samira better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no one best champion pairing for Samira that will 100% of the time be her top ally. However, overall, Vel'Koz is a very typical companion for Samira. By locking into the same team as Samira, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 48.7%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Samira and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform at the same level together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Samira. That means Samira players must be careful when finding Vel'Koz comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by grouping Samira and Vel'Koz together, you will not be providing your other teammates a lot of crowd control. Make sure to have other champions on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Vel'Koz teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Samira to synergize with Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Samira and Vel'Koz synergy build include Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Samira used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Vel'Koz than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Samira had an average win rate of 48.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Vel'Koz with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.7% win rate overall.
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