Vel'Koz with Nilah
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Nilah
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Vel'Koz Nilah Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Nilah
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Nilah
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.
Vel'Koz Nilah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nilah as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Nilah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nilah, 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 Nilah. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nilah helps Vel'Koz perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz is an ally to Nilah, he sees a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Nilah supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that their presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played together with Nilah on the same side, 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 alongside Nilah.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Nilah on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Nilah does a decent job of covering Vel'Koz in teamfights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Nilah?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Vel'Koz that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, Nilah is a decent ally for Vel'Koz. By being on the same side as Vel'Koz, they raises their win rate by 1.6% to 51.9%. This shows that there is a somewhat important bond between Vel'Koz and Nilah that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Nilah has a greater difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means you should be cautious when arranging Nilah teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Vel'Koz and Nilah together, you may not be giving your team very much protection for burst damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Nilah teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 Nilah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Vel'Koz and Nilah synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Nilah than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 51.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nilah with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest 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. Of all the rune builds players used for Vel'Koz and Nilah pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.9% winrate overall.
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