Vel'Koz with Rek'Sai
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Rek'Sai
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Vel'Koz Rek'Sai Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Rek'Sai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Rek'Sai
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 Rek'Sai Will Play
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
Vel'Koz Rek'Sai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rek'Sai as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Rek'Sai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rek'Sai, 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 Rek'Sai. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Rek'Sai helps Vel'Koz perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz is paired with Rek'Sai, he gets a little decrease in his full damage output. This could signal that Rek'Sai does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played alongside Rek'Sai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Rek'Sai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Rek'Sai.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Rek'Sai on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Rek'Sai does a decent job of protecting Vel'Koz in team fights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Rek'Sai
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Rek'Sai?
There is no ideal ally for Vel'Koz that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Rek'Sai is a very typical companion for Vel'Koz. By playing on the same side as Vel'Koz, he lowers their win rate by -0.4% to 49.9%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Vel'Koz and Rek'Sai that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Rek'Sai has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Rek'Sai teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Vel'Koz and Rek'Sai together, you probably will not be granting your other allies enough engage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Rek'Sai ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 pair well with Rek'Sai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to include in your Vel'Koz and Rek'Sai synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Rek'Sai than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 49.9% when playing alongside Rek'Sai with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take 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 players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.9% winrate overall.
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