Vel'Koz with Graves
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Graves
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Vel'Koz Graves Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Graves
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Graves
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 Graves Will Play
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
Vel'Koz Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 Graves. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Graves helps Vel'Koz perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz is an ally to Graves, he gets a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Graves doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played together with Graves on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Graves.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Graves on the same side, he often receives the same amount of damage than when he fights alone. Taking an equal amount of damage may indicate that Graves does a decent job of covering Vel'Koz in teamfights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Graves?
There is no one best companion for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Graves is a very typical teammate for Vel'Koz. By being on the same team as Vel'Koz, he drops their win rate by -0.1% to 50.2%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Vel'Koz and Graves that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Graves allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Vel'Koz and Graves together, you probably will not be providing your side a great deal of utility. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Graves ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Vel'Koz to pair well with Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Vel'Koz and Graves synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz used at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Graves than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average winrate of 50.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating 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. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.2% winrate overall.
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