Udyr is one of the best junglers in the game. Taking advantage of this can give your team a large XP advantage and map control.
Damage is applied to turtle shield post-mitigation. Therefore, buying defensive items can drastically increase your survivability.
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.
The Udyr 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, Udyr sees a very large drop in his 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 Udyr perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Udyr is paired with Vel'Koz, he observes a little decrease in his total damage output. This may signal that Vel'Koz doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Udyr is played alongside Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Udyr plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Udyr in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Udyr that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, Vel'Koz is a very typical ally for Udyr. By being on the same side as Udyr, he improves their win rate by 0.1% to 49.9%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Udyr and Vel'Koz that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Udyr. That means Udyr players should be very careful when lining up Vel'Koz allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Udyr and Vel'Koz together, you probably will not be providing your team much engage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Udyr to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Udyr and Vel'Koz synergy build consist of Riftmaker, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Udyr incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Vel'Koz than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Udyr boasted an average win rate of 49.9% helping carry Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Udyr players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Vel'Koz with Udyr are presented for all skill levels, merged. To filter the stats and builds to an individual division, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.