Annie with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Annie and Vel'Koz
based on 805 Annie with Vel'Koz pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Annie Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Annie and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Annie with Vel'Koz
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
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.
Annie Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Annie in LoL
The Annie 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, Annie sees a very large drop in her 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 Annie perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Annie is paired with Vel'Koz, she sees a small increase in her total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Vel'Koz provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played together with Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Annie plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Annie in team fights.
Synergies between Annie and Vel'Koz
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Is Annie better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Annie that will no matter what be her best synergy. Yet, Vel'Koz is a very typical companion for Annie. By playing on the same side as Annie, he drops their win rate by -0.5% to 48.8%. This signals that there is a weak strategic relationship between Annie and Vel'Koz that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Annie. That means you need to be very careful when enlisting Vel'Koz allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Annie and Vel'Koz together, you may not be granting your other teammates very much AD. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Vel'Koz ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Annie to work well with Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to include in your Annie and Vel'Koz synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Annie bought at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Vel'Koz than with many other common builds. In fact, Annie had an average winrate of 48.8% when playing alongside Vel'Koz with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Annie and Vel'Koz pairings, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.8% winrate overall.
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