Zed with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Zed and Vel'Koz
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Zed Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Zed with Vel'Koz
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.
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.
Zed Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Zed in LoL
The Zed 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, Zed sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Vel'Koz helps Zed perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed is paired with Vel'Koz, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This change may signal that Vel'Koz doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played alongside Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Vel'Koz. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Zed during team fights.
Synergies between Zed and Vel'Koz
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Is Zed better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no top ally for Zed that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, Vel'Koz is a good ally for Zed. By locking into the same side as Zed, he raises their win rate by 1.0% to 49.4%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good bond between Zed and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Zed. That means Zed players need to be very careful when finding Vel'Koz comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Zed and Vel'Koz together, you will not be providing your other teammates very much protection for burst damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Vel'Koz teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Zed to synergize with Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to prioritize in your Zed and Vel'Koz synergy build include Axiom Arc, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Zed incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Vel'Koz than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 49.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Zed and Vel'Koz pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.4% win rate overall.
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