Vel'Koz with Shaco
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Shaco
based on 2,288 Vel'Koz with Shaco pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vel'Koz Shaco Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Shaco
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Shaco
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 Shaco Will Play
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
Vel'Koz Shaco Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shaco as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Shaco synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shaco, 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 Shaco. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Shaco helps Vel'Koz perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz plays on the same team as Shaco, he gets a little increase in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Shaco provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played alongside Shaco on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Shaco. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Shaco.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Shaco on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Shaco does a poor job of covering Vel'Koz during teamfights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Shaco
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Shaco?
There is no one best champion pairing for Vel'Koz that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Shaco is a very typical ally for Vel'Koz. By being on the same team as Vel'Koz, he improves their win rate by 0.1% to 50.4%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Vel'Koz and Shaco that results in them performing better together than alone.
Shaco has a greater difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means Vel'Koz players should be very careful when finding Shaco allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Vel'Koz players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Vel'Koz and Shaco together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates enough protection for burst damage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Shaco ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Vel'Koz to synergize with Shaco during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Vel'Koz and Shaco synergy build include Horizon Focus, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Shaco than with most other common builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 50.4% helping carry Shaco with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Vel'Koz and Shaco pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Shaco with Vel'Koz are shown for all skill levels combined. To scope the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.