Vel'Koz with Ahri
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Ahri
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Vel'Koz Ahri Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Ahri Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Ahri
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Ahri
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.
Advice to Understand How Ahri Will Play
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Vel'Koz Ahri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ahri as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Ahri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ahri, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Vel'Koz sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ahri. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Ahri helps Vel'Koz perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz tries to synergize with Ahri, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This may indicate that Ahri does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played together with Ahri on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Ahri.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Ahri on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Ahri does a decent job of covering Vel'Koz during team fights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Ahri
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Ahri?
There is no one best champion pairing for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, Ahri is a below average ally for Vel'Koz. By being on the same team as Vel'Koz, she decreases their win rate by -1.8% to 48.5%. This proves that there is a bad strategic relationship between Vel'Koz and Ahri that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Ahri has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Ahri teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Vel'Koz and Ahri together, you will not be providing your other teammates enough AD. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Ahri ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz in order to synergize with Ahri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to get in your Vel'Koz and Ahri synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Shadowflame. When Vel'Koz bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Ahri than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 48.5% helping carry Ahri with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Vel'Koz and Ahri pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Ahri with Vel'Koz are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.