Vel'Koz with Skarner
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Skarner
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Vel'Koz Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz Skarner Synergy Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Skarner
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
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.
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.
Advice to Understand How Skarner Will Play
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Vel'Koz Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, 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 Skarner. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Skarner helps Vel'Koz perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz is paired with Skarner, he observes a sizeable uptick in his total damage output. This difference could indicate that Skarner supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played alongside Skarner on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Skarner. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Skarner.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Skarner on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Skarner does a poor job of protecting Vel'Koz in teamfights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Skarner
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no ideal companion for Vel'Koz that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Skarner is a decent ally for Vel'Koz. By playing on the same side as Vel'Koz, he increases their win rate by 1.8% to 53.3%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Vel'Koz and Skarner that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Skarner has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Skarner teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing together, Vel'Koz players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Vel'Koz and Skarner together, you may not be giving your team enough tankyness. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Skarner ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Vel'Koz in order to synergize with Skarner during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to get in your Vel'Koz and Skarner synergy build include Luden's Tempest, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shard of True Ice. When Vel'Koz incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Skarner than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 53.3% when playing alongside Skarner with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Presence of Mind, and Cut Down runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.3% winrate overall.
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