Vel'Koz with Kayn
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Kayn
based on 3,787 Vel'Koz with Kayn pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vel'Koz Kayn Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Kayn
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Kayn
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 Kayn Will Play
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Vel'Koz Kayn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayn as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Kayn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayn, 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 Kayn. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kayn helps Vel'Koz perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz is an ally to Kayn, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Kayn helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played together with Kayn on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kayn.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Kayn on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Kayn does a poor job of protecting Vel'Koz during team fights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Kayn?
There is no top companion for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, Kayn is a very typical companion for Vel'Koz. By locking into the same side as Vel'Koz, he lowers their win rate by -0.1% to 50.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Vel'Koz and Kayn that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Kayn has a lower difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Kayn allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Vel'Koz and Kayn together, you may not be granting your side much crowd control. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Kayn ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Vel'Koz in order to work well with Kayn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to build first in your Vel'Koz and Kayn synergy build include Horizon Focus, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Kayn than with many other common builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 50.2% helping carry Kayn with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Ghost Poro, Relentless Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.2% win rate overall.
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