Vel'Koz with Akshan
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Akshan
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Vel'Koz Akshan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Akshan
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Akshan
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 Akshan Will Play
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Vel'Koz Akshan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akshan as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Akshan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akshan, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akshan. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Akshan helps Vel'Koz perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz is an ally to Akshan, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This could indicate that Akshan supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that their participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played together with Akshan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Akshan. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Akshan.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Akshan on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Akshan does a poor job of covering Vel'Koz during team fights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Akshan?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Vel'Koz that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Akshan is a very typical ally for Vel'Koz. By locking into the same team as Vel'Koz, they raises their win rate by 0.2% to 50.5%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Vel'Koz and Akshan that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means Vel'Koz players don't need to be cautious when arranging Akshan allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Vel'Koz and Akshan together, you will not be granting your other teammates very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Akshan ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 truly master Vel'Koz in order to synergize with Akshan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to focus on in your Vel'Koz and Akshan synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Vel'Koz bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Akshan than with many other common builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 50.5% when playing alongside Akshan with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.5% winrate overall.
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