Poppy with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Poppy and Vel'Koz
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Poppy Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Poppy vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Poppy and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Poppy with Vel'Koz
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Poppy in LoL
The Poppy 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, Poppy sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Vel'Koz. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Vel'Koz helps Poppy perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Poppy tries to synergize with Vel'Koz, she gets a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Vel'Koz helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played alongside Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Poppy plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Poppy during team fights.
Synergies between Poppy and Vel'Koz
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Is Poppy better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no one best synergy for Poppy that will always be her #1 ally. Yet, overall, Vel'Koz is a very typical companion for Poppy. By locking into the same team as Poppy, he increases their win rate by 0.2% to 49.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Poppy and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Poppy. That means you should be careful when enlisting Vel'Koz comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Poppy and Vel'Koz together, you probably will not be giving your other allies much AD. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Vel'Koz ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Poppy to work well with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to use in your Poppy and Vel'Koz synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Poppy included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Vel'Koz than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Poppy boasted an average win rate of 49.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Vel'Koz with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Revitalize, Biscuit Delivery, and Time Warp Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Poppy and Vel'Koz pairings, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.9% winrate overall.
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