Vel'Koz with Lucian
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Lucian
based on 3,685 Vel'Koz with Lucian pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vel'Koz Lucian Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Lucian
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Lucian
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 Lucian Will Play
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Vel'Koz Lucian Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lucian as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, 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 Lucian. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Lucian helps Vel'Koz perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz plays on the same team as Lucian, he gets a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Lucian does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played alongside Lucian 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 Lucian.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Lucian on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Lucian does a decent job of covering Vel'Koz during team fights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Lucian
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Lucian?
There is no top synergy for Vel'Koz that will always be his top synergy. Yet, Lucian is a below average ally for Vel'Koz. By locking into the same side as Vel'Koz, he drops their win rate by -1.9% to 48.4%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Vel'Koz and Lucian that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Lucian has a lower difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Lucian allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Vel'Koz and Lucian together, you probably will not be providing your team much tankyness. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Lucian ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 synergize with Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Vel'Koz and Lucian synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Vel'Koz bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Lucian than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 48.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Lucian with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Vel'Koz players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Vel'Koz and Lucian pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.4% winrate overall.
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