Vel'Koz with Kassadin
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Kassadin
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Vel'Koz Kassadin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Kassadin
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 Kassadin Will Play
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Vel'Koz Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kassadin helps Vel'Koz perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz is an ally to Kassadin, he observes a small decrease in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Kassadin doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played with Kassadin on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kassadin.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Kassadin on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Kassadin does a decent job of covering Vel'Koz in teamfights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no one best companion for Vel'Koz that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Kassadin is a very typical companion for Vel'Koz. By being on the same team as Vel'Koz, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 50.3%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Vel'Koz and Kassadin that results in them performing at the same level together than without each other.
Kassadin has a lower difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Kassadin comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Vel'Koz players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Vel'Koz and Kassadin together, you will not be granting your side much sustained damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Kassadin teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down 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 learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz in order to pair well with Kassadin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Vel'Koz and Kassadin synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz included at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Kassadin than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average win rate of 50.3% when playing alongside Kassadin with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Vel'Koz players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Kassadin with Vel'Koz are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.