Vel'Koz with Aphelios
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Aphelios
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Vel'Koz Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Aphelios
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 Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Vel'Koz Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Aphelios helps Vel'Koz perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz plays on the same team as Aphelios, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Aphelios does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played together with Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Aphelios.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Aphelios on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Vel'Koz in team fights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no perfect ally for Vel'Koz that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Aphelios is a below average ally for Vel'Koz. By being on the same team as Vel'Koz, he lowers their win rate by -1.9% to 48.4%. This proves that there is a bad synergy between Vel'Koz and Aphelios that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Aphelios has a greater difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means Vel'Koz players must be cautious when enlisting Aphelios comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, Vel'Koz players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Vel'Koz and Aphelios together, you may not be providing your other allies enough cover. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 Vel'Koz to synergize with Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Vel'Koz and Aphelios synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Shadowflame. When Vel'Koz included at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Aphelios than with most other common item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 48.4% helping carry Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Vel'Koz players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.4% winrate overall.
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