Heimerdinger with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Heimerdinger and Vel'Koz
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Heimerdinger Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Heimerdinger and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger with Vel'Koz
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Heimerdinger in LoL
The Heimerdinger 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, Heimerdinger sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Vel'Koz helps Heimerdinger perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Heimerdinger plays on the same team as Vel'Koz, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Vel'Koz helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played together with Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Heimerdinger plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of protecting Heimerdinger during team fights.
Synergies between Heimerdinger and Vel'Koz
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Is Heimerdinger better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Heimerdinger that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, Vel'Koz is a relatively poor teammate for Heimerdinger. By being on the same side as Heimerdinger, he decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 48.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Heimerdinger and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a lower difficulty than Heimerdinger. That means Heimerdinger players don't need to be careful when finding Vel'Koz allies to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Working together, Heimerdinger players should 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.
In contrast, by bringing Heimerdinger and Vel'Koz together, you may not be providing your team enough attack damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Vel'Koz ally, you need to focus on increasing 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Heimerdinger and Vel'Koz synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Heimerdinger used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Vel'Koz than with many other common builds. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average winrate of 48.1% helping carry Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Heimerdinger players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Heimerdinger and Vel'Koz pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.1% win rate overall.
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