Vel'Koz with Darius
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Darius
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Vel'Koz Darius Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Darius
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Darius
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 Darius Will Play
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Vel'Koz Darius Synergy Stats
How to Play with Darius as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Darius synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Darius, 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 Darius. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Darius helps Vel'Koz perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz tries to synergize with Darius, he sees a little increase in his full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Darius helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played with Darius on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Darius. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Darius.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Darius on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Darius does a decent job of covering Vel'Koz during team fights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Darius?
There is no top champion pairing for Vel'Koz that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Darius is a very typical teammate for Vel'Koz. By being on the same side as Vel'Koz, he raises their win rate by 0.3% to 50.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Vel'Koz and Darius that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Darius has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Darius comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Vel'Koz and Darius together, you may not be granting your side very much crowd control. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Darius ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz in order to pair well with Darius during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Vel'Koz and Darius synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Shadowflame. When Vel'Koz incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Darius than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average winrate of 50.6% when playing alongside Darius with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating 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. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.6% winrate overall.
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