Vel'Koz with Soraka
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Soraka
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Vel'Koz Soraka Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Soraka
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Soraka
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 Soraka Will Play
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
Vel'Koz Soraka Synergy Stats
How to Play with Soraka as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Soraka synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Soraka, 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 Soraka. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Soraka helps Vel'Koz perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz plays on the same team as Soraka, he sees a little increase in his total damage dealt. This change could signal that Soraka provides protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played together with Soraka on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Soraka.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Soraka on the same side, he often receives more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Soraka does a poor job of covering Vel'Koz during teamfights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Soraka
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Soraka?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Vel'Koz that will always be his #1 ally. However, Soraka is a not very good ally for Vel'Koz. By locking into the same side as Vel'Koz, she drops their win rate by -1.3% to 49.0%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Vel'Koz and Soraka that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Soraka has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means Vel'Koz players don't need to be very careful when lining up Soraka teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Vel'Koz and Soraka together, you will not be providing your other teammates very much attack damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Soraka ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 pair well with Soraka during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to focus on in your Vel'Koz and Soraka synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz included at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Soraka than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 49.0% when playing alongside Soraka with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating 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 runes players chose for Vel'Koz and Soraka pairings, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.0% winrate overall.
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