Vladimir with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Vladimir and Vel'Koz
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Vladimir Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vladimir and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vladimir with Vel'Koz
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
Advice to Understand How Vel'Koz Will Play
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.
Vladimir Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Vladimir in LoL
The Vladimir Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Vladimir sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Vel'Koz helps Vladimir perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vladimir is an ally to Vel'Koz, he gets a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Vel'Koz does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Vladimir is played with Vel'Koz 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 Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Vladimir plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Vladimir during teamfights.
Synergies between Vladimir and Vel'Koz
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Is Vladimir better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Vladimir that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Vel'Koz is a superb teammate for Vladimir. By playing on the same side as Vladimir, he increases their win rate by 3.4% to 53.4%. This signals that there is a strong bond between Vladimir and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Vladimir. That means Vladimir players need to be very careful when arranging Vel'Koz comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, Vladimir players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Vladimir and Vel'Koz together, you may not be providing your other allies a great deal of sustained damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 learn all of the intricacies of Vladimir to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Vladimir and Vel'Koz synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Riftmaker. When Vladimir used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Vel'Koz than with most other common item sets. In fact, Vladimir boasted an average winrate of 53.4% helping carry Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.4% winrate overall.
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