Vel'Koz with Garen
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Garen
based on 2,868 Vel'Koz with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vel'Koz Garen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Garen
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Garen
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 Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Vel'Koz Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 Garen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Garen 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 Garen, he observes a little increase in his total damage output. This difference may indicate that Garen provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played together with Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Garen.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Garen on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Garen does a poor job of protecting Vel'Koz in teamfights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Garen?
There is no ideal synergy for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Garen is a below average teammate for Vel'Koz. By playing on the same team as Vel'Koz, he decreases their win rate by -2.0% to 48.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful bond between Vel'Koz and Garen that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Garen has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Garen teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Vel'Koz and Garen together, you may not be providing your other teammates much support. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Garen ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
To truly master Vel'Koz in order to work well with Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Vel'Koz and Garen synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Vel'Koz combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Garen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 48.3% helping carry Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Vel'Koz players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Vel'Koz and Garen pairings, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.3% win rate overall.
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