Vel'Koz with Kindred
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Kindred
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Vel'Koz Kindred Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Kindred
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Kindred
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 Kindred Will Play
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
Vel'Koz Kindred Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kindred as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Kindred synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kindred, 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 Kindred. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kindred helps Vel'Koz perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz tries to synergize with Kindred, he gets a little drop in his total damage output. This change could signal that Kindred does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that their participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played alongside Kindred on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kindred.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Kindred on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Kindred does a poor job of protecting Vel'Koz in teamfights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Kindred
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Kindred?
There is no top companion for Vel'Koz that will always be his ideal teammate. However, Kindred is a very bad ally for Vel'Koz. By locking into the same side as Vel'Koz, they drops their win rate by -5.1% to 45.2%. This signals that there is a terrible bond between Vel'Koz and Kindred that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Kindred has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means Vel'Koz players don't need to be careful when arranging Kindred comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Vel'Koz and Kindred together, you will not be granting your other teammates much cover. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Kindred ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz in order to work well with Kindred during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Vel'Koz and Kindred synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Vel'Koz included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Kindred than with many other common item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 45.2% when playing alongside Kindred with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip 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 builds players chose for Vel'Koz and Kindred pairings, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.2% win rate overall.
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