Yorick with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Yorick and Vel'Koz
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Yorick Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Yorick and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Yorick with Vel'Koz
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
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.
Yorick Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Yorick in LoL
The Yorick 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, Yorick sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Vel'Koz helps Yorick perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Yorick is paired with Vel'Koz, he observes a small increase in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Vel'Koz helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Yorick 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.
Moreover, when Yorick plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Yorick during teamfights.
Synergies between Yorick and Vel'Koz
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Is Yorick better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no top champion pairing for Yorick that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Vel'Koz is a very typical teammate for Yorick. By locking into the same side as Yorick, he lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 50.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Yorick and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Yorick. That means Yorick players need to be cautious when lining up Vel'Koz teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, Yorick players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Yorick and Vel'Koz together, you may not be giving your other allies very much support. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will 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 Yorick to synergize with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Yorick and Vel'Koz synergy build consist of Spear of Shojin, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Yorick included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Vel'Koz than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Yorick boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when playing alongside Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Yorick players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.0% winrate overall.
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