Vel'Koz with Nidalee
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Nidalee
based on 445 Vel'Koz with Nidalee pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vel'Koz Nidalee Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Nidalee
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 Nidalee Will Play
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
Vel'Koz Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, 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 Nidalee. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nidalee helps Vel'Koz perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz is an ally to Nidalee, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Nidalee provides protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played together with Nidalee on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Nidalee. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nidalee.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Nidalee on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Nidalee does a poor job of protecting Vel'Koz during team fights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Nidalee
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no perfect synergy for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, Nidalee is a very bad teammate for Vel'Koz. By being on the same team as Vel'Koz, she decreases their win rate by -4.7% to 45.6%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Vel'Koz and Nidalee that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Nidalee has a lower difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means Vel'Koz players don't need to be careful when enlisting Nidalee comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Vel'Koz players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Vel'Koz and Nidalee together, you will not be giving your team much tankyness. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Nidalee teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz to work well with Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to use in your Vel'Koz and Nidalee synergy build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Nidalee than with many other common builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 45.6% helping carry Nidalee with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance 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. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Vel'Koz and Nidalee pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.6% winrate overall.
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