Vel'Koz with Caitlyn
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Caitlyn
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Vel'Koz Caitlyn Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Caitlyn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Caitlyn
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 Caitlyn Will Play
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Vel'Koz Caitlyn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Caitlyn as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, 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 Caitlyn. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Caitlyn helps Vel'Koz perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz plays on the same team as Caitlyn, he observes a little drop in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Caitlyn does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played together with Caitlyn on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Caitlyn.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Caitlyn on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Caitlyn does a decent job of covering Vel'Koz during team fights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Caitlyn
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Caitlyn?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Vel'Koz that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Caitlyn is a very typical teammate for Vel'Koz. By locking into the same side as Vel'Koz, she lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 50.1%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Vel'Koz and Caitlyn that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Caitlyn has a lower difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Caitlyn teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Vel'Koz and Caitlyn together, you probably will not be granting your team very much engage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Caitlyn teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz to work well with Caitlyn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Vel'Koz and Caitlyn synergy build consist of Cryptbloom, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz bought at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Caitlyn than with many other common item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 50.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Caitlyn with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.1% winrate overall.
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