Vel'Koz with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Xin Zhao
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Vel'Koz Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Xin Zhao
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 Xin Zhao Will Play
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
Vel'Koz Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, 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 Xin Zhao. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Xin Zhao helps Vel'Koz perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz plays on the same team as Xin Zhao, he gets a small decrease in his complete damage output. This change may signal that Xin Zhao doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played with Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Vel'Koz in teamfights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Vel'Koz that will always be his best teammate. However, overall, Xin Zhao is a very typical companion for Vel'Koz. By playing on the same side as Vel'Koz, he drops their win rate by -0.2% to 50.1%. This shows that there is a weak synergy between Vel'Koz and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means Vel'Koz players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Xin Zhao allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Vel'Koz and Xin Zhao together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much support. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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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 Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to focus on in your Vel'Koz and Xin Zhao synergy build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Horizon Focus, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz included at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Xin Zhao than with many other typical builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average winrate of 50.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, Vel'Koz players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Vel'Koz and Xin Zhao pairings, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.1% winrate overall.
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