Yasuo with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Yasuo and Vel'Koz
based on 4,735 Yasuo with Vel'Koz pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Yasuo Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Yasuo and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Yasuo with Vel'Koz
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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.
Yasuo Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Yasuo in LoL
The Yasuo 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, Yasuo sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Vel'Koz helps Yasuo perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Yasuo tries to synergize with Vel'Koz, he sees a little drop in his full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Vel'Koz doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Yasuo is played with Vel'Koz on the same team, 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 with Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Yasuo plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Yasuo during teamfights.
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Is Yasuo better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no top ally for Yasuo that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, overall, Vel'Koz is a very typical companion for Yasuo. By playing on the same side as Yasuo, he increases their win rate by 0.9% to 51.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Yasuo and Vel'Koz that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a lower difficulty than Yasuo. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Vel'Koz comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing alongside, Yasuo players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Yasuo and Vel'Koz together, you probably will not be granting your side much tankyness. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Yasuo in order to work well with Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Yasuo and Vel'Koz synergy build include Iceborn Gauntlet, Kraken Slayer, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Yasuo used at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Vel'Koz than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Yasuo had an average winrate of 51.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Yasuo players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.5% winrate overall.
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