Vel'Koz with Naafiri
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Naafiri
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Vel'Koz Naafiri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Naafiri
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 Naafiri Will Play
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Vel'Koz Naafiri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Naafiri as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Naafiri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Naafiri, 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 Naafiri. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Naafiri helps Vel'Koz perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz is an ally to Naafiri, he sees a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Naafiri does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that their support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played alongside Naafiri on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Naafiri.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Naafiri on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Naafiri does a decent job of protecting Vel'Koz during teamfights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Naafiri?
There is no one best companion for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. Yet, Naafiri is a pretty good teammate for Vel'Koz. By locking into the same team as Vel'Koz, they raises their win rate by 2.0% to 52.3%. This shows that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Vel'Koz and Naafiri that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Naafiri has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means Vel'Koz players don't need to be careful when lining up Naafiri allies to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, Vel'Koz players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Vel'Koz and Naafiri together, you may not be granting your side a great deal of protection for burst damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Naafiri ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz to work well with Naafiri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Vel'Koz and Naafiri synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Naafiri than with most other common item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average win rate of 52.3% helping carry Naafiri with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use 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 sets we have analyed for Vel'Koz and Naafiri pairings, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.3% win rate overall.
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