Vel'Koz with Brand
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Brand
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Vel'Koz Brand Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Brand
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Brand
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 Brand Will Play
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Vel'Koz Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, 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 Brand. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Brand helps Vel'Koz perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz tries to synergize with Brand, he gets a little drop in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Brand doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played alongside Brand on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Brand. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Brand.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Brand on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Brand does a poor job of protecting Vel'Koz during teamfights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Brand
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Brand?
There is no top ally for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Brand is a very typical companion for Vel'Koz. By locking into the same team as Vel'Koz, he lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 50.0%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong synergy between Vel'Koz and Brand that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Brand has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Brand allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Vel'Koz and Brand together, you will not be giving your other allies much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Brand ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Vel'Koz in order to pair well with Brand during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to focus on in your Vel'Koz and Brand synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Vel'Koz used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Brand than with most other common builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average winrate of 50.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Brand with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Vel'Koz players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Brand with Vel'Koz are given for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.