Nami with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Nami and Vel'Koz
based on 738 Nami with Vel'Koz pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nami Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Nami vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nami and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Nami with Vel'Koz
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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.
Nami Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Nami in LoL
The Nami 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, Nami sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Vel'Koz helps Nami perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nami tries to synergize with Vel'Koz, she observes a little increase in her complete damage output. This difference may signal that Vel'Koz provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nami is played alongside Vel'Koz on the same team, 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.
Moreover, when Nami plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Nami in teamfights.
Synergies between Nami and Vel'Koz
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Is Nami better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no one best champion pairing for Nami that will no matter what be her ideal synergy. Yet, Vel'Koz is a very typical ally for Nami. By playing on the same team as Nami, he raises their win rate by 0.6% to 49.7%. This shows that there is only a small strategic relationship between Nami and Vel'Koz that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Nami. That means you should be careful when enlisting Vel'Koz teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Nami and Vel'Koz together, you may not be giving your other allies a great deal of tankyness. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's ability, 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 Nami to work well with Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Nami and Vel'Koz synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Dream Maker, and Imperial Mandate. When Nami used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Vel'Koz than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nami had an average winrate of 49.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Vel'Koz with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.7% winrate overall.
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