Vel'Koz with Talon
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Talon
based on 1,330 Vel'Koz with Talon pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vel'Koz Talon Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Talon Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Talon
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Talon
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 Talon Will Play
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
Vel'Koz Talon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Talon as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Talon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Talon, 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 Talon. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Talon helps Vel'Koz perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz tries to synergize with Talon, he sees a little increase in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Talon supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played together with Talon on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Talon.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Talon on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Talon does a poor job of covering Vel'Koz in team fights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Talon
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Talon?
There is no perfect ally for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, Talon is a below average ally for Vel'Koz. By playing on the same side as Vel'Koz, he lowers their win rate by -2.2% to 48.1%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Vel'Koz and Talon that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Talon has a lower difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Talon teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Vel'Koz and Talon together, you probably will not be giving your side a great deal of engage potential. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Talon ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 to work well with Talon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to prioritize in your Vel'Koz and Talon synergy build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Talon than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 48.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Talon with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing 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 sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.1% winrate overall.
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