Zoe with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Zoe and Vel'Koz
based on 638 Zoe with Vel'Koz pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zoe Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Zoe vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Core Zoe Items
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Guide to Synergizing Zoe and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Zoe with Vel'Koz
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
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.
Zoe Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Zoe in LoL
The Zoe Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Zoe sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vel'Koz helps Zoe perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zoe tries to synergize with Vel'Koz, she gets a little drop in her total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Vel'Koz does not support by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zoe is played together with Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Zoe plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of protecting Zoe in team fights.
Synergies between Zoe and Vel'Koz
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Is Zoe better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no ideal companion for Zoe that will always be her #1 ally. Yet, Vel'Koz is a very typical ally for Zoe. By playing on the same side as Zoe, he raises their win rate by 0.2% to 47.2%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Zoe and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Zoe. That means Zoe players need to be careful when lining up Vel'Koz allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Zoe and Vel'Koz together, you will not be granting your other allies much attack damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Vel'Koz teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Zoe in order to work well with Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Zoe and Vel'Koz synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe used at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Vel'Koz than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Zoe boasted an average win rate of 47.2% when playing alongside Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Zoe and Vel'Koz pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.2% winrate overall.
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