Vel'Koz with Zed
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Zed
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Vel'Koz Zed Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Zed
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Vel'Koz Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zed helps Vel'Koz perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz is an ally to Zed, he gets a small increase in his full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Zed provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played with Zed 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 Zed.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Zed on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Zed does a decent job of protecting Vel'Koz in teamfights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Zed
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Zed?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, Zed is a very typical companion for Vel'Koz. By being on the same side as Vel'Koz, he drops their win rate by -0.9% to 49.4%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Vel'Koz and Zed that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Zed has a lower difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Zed allies to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Vel'Koz and Zed together, you probably will not be granting your team a lot of engage potential. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Zed ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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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 synergize with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Vel'Koz and Zed synergy build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Horizon Focus, and Stormsurge. When Vel'Koz used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Zed than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average win rate of 49.4% when playing alongside Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Vel'Koz players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Zed with Vel'Koz are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.