Vel'Koz with Karma
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Karma
based on 872 Vel'Koz with Karma pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vel'Koz Karma Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Karma
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Karma
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 Karma Will Play
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
Vel'Koz Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Karma synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karma, 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 Karma. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Karma helps Vel'Koz perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz tries to synergize with Karma, he observes a small increase in his full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Karma helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played with Karma on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Karma. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Karma.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Karma on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Karma does a poor job of protecting Vel'Koz in team fights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Karma
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Karma?
There is no ideal ally for Vel'Koz that will no matter what be his top ally. However, Karma is a very bad ally for Vel'Koz. By locking into the same team as Vel'Koz, she drops their win rate by -3.5% to 46.8%. This signals that there is a very bad bond between Vel'Koz and Karma that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Karma has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means Vel'Koz players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Karma allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Vel'Koz and Karma together, you probably will not be giving your side a great deal of sustained damage output. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Karma ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz to pair well with Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to include in your Vel'Koz and Karma synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Vel'Koz incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Karma than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 46.8% helping carry Karma with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip 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 sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.8% win rate overall.
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