Kalista with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Kalista and Vel'Koz
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Kalista Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Kalista vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kalista and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Kalista with Vel'Koz
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
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.
Kalista Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Kalista in LoL
The Kalista 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, Kalista sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Vel'Koz helps Kalista perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kalista tries to synergize with Vel'Koz, she sees a noticable drop in her full damage output. This may indicate that Vel'Koz doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played alongside Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Vel'Koz. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Kalista plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Kalista in teamfights.
Synergies between Kalista and Vel'Koz
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Is Kalista better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no top companion for Kalista that will always be her ideal synergy. However, Vel'Koz is a not very good ally for Kalista. By playing on the same team as Kalista, he drops their win rate by -3.0% to 44.4%. This proves that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Kalista and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Kalista. That means you need to be very careful when lining up Vel'Koz allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, Kalista players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Kalista and Vel'Koz together, you may not be giving your team a lot of tankyness. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should 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 Kalista to work well with Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Kalista and Vel'Koz synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kalista used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Vel'Koz than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kalista boasted an average winrate of 44.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Vel'Koz with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Kalista players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.4% winrate overall.
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