Vel'Koz with Briar
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Briar
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Vel'Koz Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Briar
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Briar
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.
Vel'Koz Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Briar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Briar, 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 Briar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Briar helps Vel'Koz perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz tries to synergize with Briar, he sees a little drop in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Briar does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that their participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played together with Briar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Briar.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Briar on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Briar does a decent job of covering Vel'Koz in teamfights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Briar?
There is no top ally for Vel'Koz that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Briar is a fantastic teammate for Vel'Koz. By playing on the same side as Vel'Koz, they improves their win rate by 3.3% to 53.6%. This demonstrates that there is a very real bond between Vel'Koz and Briar that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Briar has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means Vel'Koz players don't need to be careful when finding Briar teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, Vel'Koz players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Vel'Koz and Briar together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a lot of cover. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Briar ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Vel'Koz in order to synergize with Briar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Vel'Koz and Briar synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Briar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average winrate of 53.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Briar with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Vel'Koz players should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Ghost Poro, Relentless Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.6% winrate overall.
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