Vel'Koz with Xerath
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Xerath
based on 1,564 Vel'Koz with Xerath pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vel'Koz Xerath Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Xerath
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 Xerath Will Play
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
Vel'Koz Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, 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 Xerath. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Xerath helps Vel'Koz perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz tries to synergize with Xerath, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This may indicate that Xerath doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played alongside Xerath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Xerath. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Xerath.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Xerath on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Xerath does a poor job of protecting Vel'Koz during team fights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Xerath
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no one best companion for Vel'Koz that will always be his best ally. However, overall, Xerath is a very typical teammate for Vel'Koz. By being on the same team as Vel'Koz, he lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 50.0%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong synergy between Vel'Koz and Xerath that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Xerath has a lower difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Xerath comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Vel'Koz and Xerath together, you probably will not be providing your side much AD. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Xerath ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz in order to synergize with Xerath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to get in your Vel'Koz and Xerath synergy build consist of Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Shadowflame. When Vel'Koz bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Xerath than with many other typical builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Xerath with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should equip 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 Vel'Koz and Xerath pairings, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.0% winrate overall.
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