Vel'Koz with Shen
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Shen
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Vel'Koz Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Shen
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Shen
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 Shen Will Play
Leverage your Energy to get a long-term advantage over Mana users.
Keep an eye on allies and be ready to save them with your teleport.
Vel'Koz Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Shen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shen, 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 Shen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Shen helps Vel'Koz perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz is an ally to Shen, he gets a small increase in his complete damage output. This may signal that Shen helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played alongside Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Shen.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Shen on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Shen does a decent job of protecting Vel'Koz during teamfights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Shen?
There is no one best champion pairing for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Shen is a very typical companion for Vel'Koz. By locking into the same team as Vel'Koz, he lowers their win rate by -0.4% to 49.9%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Vel'Koz and Shen that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Shen has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means Vel'Koz players don't need to be careful when lining up Shen allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Vel'Koz and Shen together, you will not be granting your other teammates a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Shen ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz in order to work well with Shen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Vel'Koz and Shen synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Shen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 49.9% when playing alongside Shen with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Vel'Koz players should use 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 builds players used for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Shen with Vel'Koz are presented for every ranked division. To scope the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.