Vel'Koz with Bard
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Bard
based on 767 Vel'Koz with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vel'Koz Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Bard
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Bard
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 Bard Will Play
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Vel'Koz Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, 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 Bard. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Bard helps Vel'Koz perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz is an ally to Bard, he sees a noticable increase in his full damage dealt. This difference could signal that Bard provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played with Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Bard.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Bard on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Bard does a poor job of covering Vel'Koz in teamfights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Bard?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Vel'Koz that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Bard is a good teammate for Vel'Koz. By locking into the same side as Vel'Koz, he increases their win rate by 2.2% to 52.5%. This shows that there is pretty good synergy between Vel'Koz and Bard that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means you must be very careful when arranging Bard allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Vel'Koz and Bard together, you will not be providing your side a lot of attack damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Bard ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should 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 work well with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Vel'Koz and Bard synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Bard than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 52.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating 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 sets we have analyed for Vel'Koz and Bard pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Bard with Vel'Koz are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.