Vel'Koz with Hecarim
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Hecarim
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Vel'Koz Hecarim Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Hecarim Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Hecarim
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 Hecarim Will Play
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
Vel'Koz Hecarim Synergy Stats
How to Play with Hecarim as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Hecarim synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Hecarim, 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 Hecarim. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Hecarim helps Vel'Koz perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz tries to synergize with Hecarim, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Hecarim doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played alongside Hecarim on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Hecarim. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Hecarim.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Hecarim on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Hecarim does a decent job of covering Vel'Koz in team fights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Hecarim
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Hecarim?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Vel'Koz that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Hecarim is a very typical companion for Vel'Koz. By locking into the same side as Vel'Koz, he decreases their win rate by -1.0% to 49.3%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Vel'Koz and Hecarim that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Hecarim has a lower difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Hecarim comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Vel'Koz players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Vel'Koz and Hecarim together, you probably will not be granting your team very much crowd control. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Hecarim ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Vel'Koz in order to synergize with Hecarim during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Vel'Koz and Hecarim synergy build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Horizon Focus, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Hecarim than with many other common builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 49.3% when playing alongside Hecarim with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Vel'Koz and Hecarim pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.3% winrate overall.
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