Vel'Koz with Jarvan IV
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Jarvan IV
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Vel'Koz Jarvan IV Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Jarvan IV
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Jarvan IV
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 Jarvan IV Will Play
Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.
You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize damage.
Vel'Koz Jarvan IV Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jarvan IV as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Jarvan IV synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jarvan IV, 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 Jarvan IV. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Jarvan IV helps Vel'Koz perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz is paired with Jarvan IV, he sees a small increase in his full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Jarvan IV provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played alongside Jarvan IV 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 with Jarvan IV.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Jarvan IV on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Jarvan IV does a decent job of covering Vel'Koz in team fights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Jarvan IV?
There is no one best companion for Vel'Koz that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, Jarvan IV is a relatively poor ally for Vel'Koz. By locking into the same team as Vel'Koz, he decreases their win rate by -1.8% to 48.5%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Vel'Koz and Jarvan IV that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Jarvan IV has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means Vel'Koz players don't need to be very careful when lining up Jarvan IV comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Vel'Koz and Jarvan IV together, you will not be granting your other teammates a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Jarvan IV ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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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 Jarvan IV during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Vel'Koz and Jarvan IV synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Jarvan IV than with most other typical builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 48.5% when playing alongside Jarvan IV with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.5% win rate overall.
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