Alistar with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Alistar and Vel'Koz
based on 532 Alistar with Vel'Koz pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Alistar Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Vel'Koz
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar 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, Alistar 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 Alistar perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar is paired with Vel'Koz, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This may signal that Vel'Koz supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played together with Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Vel'Koz. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Alistar in team fights.
Synergies between Alistar and Vel'Koz
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no top companion for Alistar that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, Vel'Koz is a below average companion for Alistar. By being on the same side as Alistar, he lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 47.9%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Alistar and Vel'Koz that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Alistar. That means you need to be cautious when arranging Vel'Koz comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Alistar and Vel'Koz together, you will not be providing your side enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Vel'Koz ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 Alistar in order to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Alistar and Vel'Koz synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar used at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Vel'Koz than with many other common item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 47.9% helping carry Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Alistar players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.9% win rate overall.
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