Vel'Koz with Jhin
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Jhin
based on 10,102 Vel'Koz with Jhin pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vel'Koz Jhin Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Jhin Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Jhin
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Jhin
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 Jhin Will Play
Your ultimate deals significantly less damage to enemies with full health. Look to pick off weakened targets as they run away.
Deadly Flourish has incredible range. When approaching a fight be sure to look ahead for enemies that could be rooted.
You can still cast your spells while reloading. Use them to fill the down time.
Vel'Koz Jhin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jhin as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Jhin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jhin, 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 Jhin. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Jhin helps Vel'Koz perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz is paired with Jhin, he gets a small increase in his complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Jhin helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played with Jhin on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Jhin. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Jhin.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Jhin on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Jhin does a poor job of protecting Vel'Koz during teamfights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Jhin
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Jhin?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Vel'Koz that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, Jhin is a pretty good teammate for Vel'Koz. By locking into the same side as Vel'Koz, he increases their win rate by 1.8% to 52.1%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Vel'Koz and Jhin that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Jhin has a lower difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Jhin comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Vel'Koz players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Vel'Koz and Jhin together, you may not be granting your other teammates enough protection for burst damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Jhin 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 will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Vel'Koz to pair well with Jhin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Vel'Koz and Jhin synergy build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Vel'Koz included at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Jhin than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 52.1% when playing alongside Jhin with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.1% win rate overall.
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