Vel'Koz with Katarina
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Katarina
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Vel'Koz Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Vel'Koz Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Katarina helps Vel'Koz perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz is paired with Katarina, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Katarina doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played together with Katarina 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 with Katarina.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Katarina on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Katarina does a decent job of covering Vel'Koz during teamfights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Katarina
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no one best ally for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Katarina is a relatively poor companion for Vel'Koz. By playing on the same team as Vel'Koz, she decreases their win rate by -2.5% to 47.8%. This shows that there is a bad strategic relationship between Vel'Koz and Katarina that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Katarina has a lower difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Katarina teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
When playing together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Vel'Koz and Katarina together, you may not be giving your side a lot of support. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should 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 synergize with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to get in your Vel'Koz and Katarina synergy build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Vel'Koz used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Katarina than with many other typical builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 47.8% when playing alongside Katarina with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take 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 builds players used for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.8% win rate overall.
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