Illaoi with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Illaoi and Vel'Koz
based on 1,498 Illaoi with Vel'Koz pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Vel'Koz
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a 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.
Illaoi Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi 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, Illaoi sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vel'Koz helps Illaoi perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Illaoi is an ally to Vel'Koz, she observes a small increase in her complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Vel'Koz provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played alongside 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 synergisticly with Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Illaoi plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of protecting Illaoi in teamfights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Vel'Koz
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no one best companion for Illaoi that will always be her #1 synergy. However, overall, Vel'Koz is a decent companion for Illaoi. By being on the same side as Illaoi, he increases their win rate by 2.2% to 51.8%. This shows that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Illaoi and Vel'Koz that results in them performing better together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a much greater difficulty compared to Illaoi. That means you need to be very careful when finding Vel'Koz comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Illaoi and Vel'Koz together, you may not be providing your side very much crowd control. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Vel'Koz ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Illaoi in order to work well with Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to use in your Illaoi and Vel'Koz synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spirit Visage, and Black Cleaver. When Illaoi included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Vel'Koz than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average winrate of 51.8% helping carry Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.8% winrate overall.
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