Thresh with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Thresh and Vel'Koz
based on 1,183 Thresh with Vel'Koz pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Thresh Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Thresh and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Thresh with Vel'Koz
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Thresh in LoL
The Thresh 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, Thresh sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vel'Koz helps Thresh perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Thresh is paired with Vel'Koz, he observes a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Vel'Koz helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played together with Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Thresh plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Thresh in teamfights.
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Is Thresh better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Thresh that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Vel'Koz is a decent ally for Thresh. By playing on the same side as Thresh, he increases their win rate by 1.7% to 50.2%. This demonstrates that there is a good strategic relationship between Thresh and Vel'Koz that results in them performing better together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Thresh. That means you should be very careful when arranging Vel'Koz allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Thresh and Vel'Koz together, you may not be providing your other teammates a great deal of sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Vel'Koz teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh in order to work well with Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Thresh and Vel'Koz synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Thresh used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Vel'Koz than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 50.2% helping carry Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Vel'Koz with Thresh are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.