Zyra with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Zyra and Vel'Koz
based on 1,176 Zyra with Vel'Koz pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zyra Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Zyra vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zyra and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Zyra with Vel'Koz
Seeds grant vision to your team.
Placing a seed in your spell's path after you have cast it gives you the best chance of having a seed in the proper spot.
Zyra is a great ambusher - look for opportunities to set a trap of seeds in brush, then lure enemies in.
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.
Zyra Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Zyra in LoL
The Zyra 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, Zyra 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 decrease shows that Vel'Koz helps Zyra perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zyra is an ally to Vel'Koz, she gets a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This change could signal that Vel'Koz supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Zyra is played with Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Vel'Koz. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Zyra plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, she typically receives more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Zyra during teamfights.
Synergies between Zyra and Vel'Koz
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Is Zyra better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no one best champion pairing for Zyra that will always be her #1 ally. Yet, Vel'Koz is a not very good companion for Zyra. By being on the same side as Zyra, he drops their win rate by -1.7% to 50.9%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Zyra and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Zyra. That means you should be very careful when arranging Vel'Koz comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting together, Zyra players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Zyra and Vel'Koz together, you may not be giving your side a lot of cover. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Vel'Koz ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zyra in order to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Zyra and Vel'Koz synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Zyra combined at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Vel'Koz than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zyra had an average winrate of 50.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Zyra players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Relentless Hunter, and Taste of Blood runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.9% winrate overall.
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