Vel'Koz with Annie
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Annie
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Vel'Koz Annie Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Annie
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Annie
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.
Advice to Understand How Annie Will Play
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
Vel'Koz Annie Synergy Stats
How to Play with Annie as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Vel'Koz sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Annie. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Annie helps Vel'Koz perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz plays on the same team as Annie, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Annie doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played with Annie on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Annie.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Annie on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Annie does a decent job of protecting Vel'Koz during team fights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Annie?
There is no ideal synergy for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, overall, Annie is a relatively poor companion for Vel'Koz. By locking into the same side as Vel'Koz, she lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 48.8%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Vel'Koz and Annie that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Annie has a lower difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means Vel'Koz players don't need to be cautious when lining up Annie comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, Vel'Koz players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Vel'Koz and Annie together, you probably will not be granting your side enough attack damage. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Annie ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz in order to synergize with Annie during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Vel'Koz and Annie synergy build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz used at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Annie than with most other common item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average win rate of 48.8% when playing alongside Annie with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Vel'Koz players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.8% win rate overall.
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