Vel'Koz with Olaf
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Olaf
based on 685 Vel'Koz with Olaf pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vel'Koz Olaf Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Olaf
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Olaf
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 Olaf Will Play
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Vel'Koz Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, 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 Olaf. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Olaf helps Vel'Koz perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz plays on the same team as Olaf, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This could signal that Olaf does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played with Olaf on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Olaf. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Olaf.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Olaf 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 Olaf does a decent job of covering Vel'Koz in teamfights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no perfect synergy for Vel'Koz that will always be his top teammate. However, overall, Olaf is a decent ally for Vel'Koz. By locking into the same team as Vel'Koz, he raises their win rate by 2.0% to 52.3%. This signals that there is a good synergy between Vel'Koz and Olaf that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Olaf has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means Vel'Koz players don't need to be careful when enlisting Olaf teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, Vel'Koz players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Vel'Koz and Olaf together, you may not be giving your other teammates enough tankyness. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Olaf ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Vel'Koz to pair well with Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to get in your Vel'Koz and Olaf synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Olaf than with most other typical builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average win rate of 52.3% helping carry Olaf with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing 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 rune combinations players used for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.3% winrate overall.
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