Bard with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Bard and Vel'Koz
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Bard Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Bard with Vel'Koz
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Bard in LoL
The Bard 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, Bard sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Vel'Koz helps Bard perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard is an ally to Vel'Koz, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This could indicate that Vel'Koz helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with Vel'Koz on the same team, 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 synergisticly with Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, he on average receives more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Bard during teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no top champion pairing for Bard that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, Vel'Koz is a very typical teammate for Bard. By locking into the same side as Bard, he raises their win rate by 0.2% to 52.5%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Bard and Vel'Koz that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a lower difficulty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be careful when enlisting Vel'Koz comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Bard and Vel'Koz together, you probably will not be providing your other allies much AD. Make sure to include other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Bard to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Bard and Vel'Koz synergy build include Frozen Heart, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Vel'Koz than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 52.5% helping carry Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Bard players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Vel'Koz with Bard are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.