Vel'Koz with Shyvana
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Shyvana
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Vel'Koz Shyvana Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Shyvana Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Shyvana
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Shyvana
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 Shyvana Will Play
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
Vel'Koz Shyvana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shyvana as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Shyvana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shyvana, 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 Shyvana. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shyvana helps Vel'Koz perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz is an ally to Shyvana, he observes a little drop in his full damage dealt. This change may signal that Shyvana does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played together with Shyvana 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 Shyvana.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Shyvana on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Shyvana does a poor job of covering Vel'Koz during teamfights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Shyvana
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Shyvana?
There is no top ally for Vel'Koz that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, Shyvana is a very typical ally for Vel'Koz. By locking into the same side as Vel'Koz, she improves their win rate by 0.3% to 50.6%. This signals that there is a weak strategic relationship between Vel'Koz and Shyvana that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Shyvana has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means Vel'Koz players don't need to be careful when arranging Shyvana teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, Vel'Koz players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Vel'Koz and Shyvana together, you may not be granting your other allies much utility. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Shyvana ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should 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 work well with Shyvana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Vel'Koz and Shyvana synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Shyvana than with most other common builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average winrate of 50.6% when playing alongside Shyvana with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing 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 sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.6% win rate overall.
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