Vel'Koz with Akali
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Akali
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Vel'Koz Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Akali
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Akali
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 Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Vel'Koz Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, 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 Akali. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Akali helps Vel'Koz perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz tries to synergize with Akali, he observes a little decrease in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Akali does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played with Akali on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Akali. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Akali.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Akali on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Akali does a decent job of covering Vel'Koz in teamfights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Akali
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Akali?
There is no top synergy for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, overall, Akali is a below average ally for Vel'Koz. By locking into the same side as Vel'Koz, she lowers their win rate by -1.6% to 48.7%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Vel'Koz and Akali that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Akali has a lower difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Akali allies to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Vel'Koz and Akali together, you may not be providing your team much protection for burst damage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Akali ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing 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
To truly master Vel'Koz in order to work well with Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to build first in your Vel'Koz and Akali synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Vel'Koz included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Akali than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average win rate of 48.7% helping carry Akali with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Akali with Vel'Koz are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.