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.
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Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
The Vel'Koz Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, 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 Illaoi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Illaoi helps Vel'Koz perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz plays on the same team as Illaoi, he observes a small increase in his full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Illaoi supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played with Illaoi 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 with Illaoi.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Illaoi on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Illaoi does a decent job of covering Vel'Koz during teamfights.
There is no one best synergy for Vel'Koz that will always be his #1 synergy. However, Illaoi is a decent ally for Vel'Koz. By locking into the same side as Vel'Koz, she increases their win rate by 1.5% to 51.8%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Vel'Koz and Illaoi that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Illaoi has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Illaoi allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Vel'Koz and Illaoi together, you will not be granting your side much crowd control. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Illaoi ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz in order to synergize with Illaoi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to include in your Vel'Koz and Illaoi synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Illaoi than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 51.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Illaoi with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating 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 runes we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.8% win rate overall.
If you would like to view Vel'Koz with Illaoi collaboration tips and builds for a a particular rank, feel free to select one from the selection menu displayed above. By default, the stats and build suggestions shown are calculated using every match completed with these champs.