Taliyah with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Taliyah and Vel'Koz
based on 558 Taliyah with Vel'Koz pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Taliyah Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Taliyah vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Core Taliyah Items
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Guide to Synergizing Taliyah and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Taliyah with Vel'Koz
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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.
Taliyah Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Taliyah in LoL
The Taliyah 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, Taliyah sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Vel'Koz helps Taliyah perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Taliyah plays on the same team as Vel'Koz, she sees a small decrease in her total damage output. This change could signal that Vel'Koz doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Taliyah is played alongside Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Taliyah plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, she typically receives more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Taliyah in team fights.
Synergies between Taliyah and Vel'Koz
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Is Taliyah better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Taliyah that will no matter what be her #1 ally. Yet, Vel'Koz is a very typical companion for Taliyah. By being on the same team as Taliyah, he raises their win rate by 0.5% to 49.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Taliyah and Vel'Koz that results in them performing better together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Taliyah. That means Taliyah players should be very careful when finding Vel'Koz allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Taliyah and Vel'Koz together, you may not be giving your other allies a lot of sustained damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Taliyah in order to synergize with Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Taliyah and Vel'Koz synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah incorporated 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, Taliyah had an average winrate of 49.3% when playing alongside Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Taliyah and Vel'Koz pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Vel'Koz with Taliyah are shown for all skill levels combined. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.