Vel'Koz with Alistar
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Alistar
based on 532 Vel'Koz with Alistar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vel'Koz Alistar Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Alistar
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 Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Vel'Koz Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, 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 Alistar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Alistar helps Vel'Koz perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz is paired with Alistar, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This could indicate that Alistar supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played together with Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Alistar.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Alistar on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Alistar does a decent job of covering Vel'Koz during team fights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Alistar
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no top champion pairing for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Alistar is a not very good ally for Vel'Koz. By playing on the same team as Vel'Koz, he lowers their win rate by -2.4% to 47.9%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Vel'Koz and Alistar that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Alistar has a lower difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Alistar teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, Vel'Koz players should expect to 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 Alistar together, you may not be granting your other teammates very much attack damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Alistar ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold 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 truly master Vel'Koz in order to work well with Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to use in your Vel'Koz and Alistar synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Alistar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 47.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Vel'Koz and Alistar pairings, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Alistar with Vel'Koz are given for every ranked division. If you want to scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.