Lee Sin with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Lee Sin and Vel'Koz
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Lee Sin Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lee Sin and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin with Vel'Koz
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
Lee Sin Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Lee Sin in LoL
The Lee Sin 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, Lee Sin 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 drop shows that Vel'Koz helps Lee Sin perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lee Sin tries to synergize with Vel'Koz, he sees a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Vel'Koz provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Lee Sin is played with Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Lee Sin plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of protecting Lee Sin in team fights.
Synergies between Lee Sin and Vel'Koz
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Is Lee Sin better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no one best ally for Lee Sin that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, overall, Vel'Koz is a pretty good companion for Lee Sin. By locking into the same side as Lee Sin, he raises their win rate by 1.9% to 49.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Lee Sin and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Lee Sin. That means you should be very careful when finding Vel'Koz allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Lee Sin and Vel'Koz together, you probably will not be giving your other allies much cover. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Lee Sin to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Lee Sin and Vel'Koz synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Lee Sin incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Vel'Koz than with most other common item sets. In fact, Lee Sin boasted an average winrate of 49.2% helping carry Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.2% winrate overall.
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