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.
If you're in a lane against ranged players, leveling up Meditate can allow you to stay in the lane longer and gain levels faster than they will.
Try using Alpha Strike on a minion in front of an enemy champion so you are placed at a safe distance at the end of the spell.
Wuju Style is very strong early for last hitting minions.
The Vel'Koz Master Yi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Master Yi, 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 Master Yi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Master Yi helps Vel'Koz perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz is an ally to Master Yi, he sees a little drop in his full damage output. This may indicate that Master Yi does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played with Master Yi 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 synergisticly with Master Yi.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Master Yi on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Master Yi does a decent job of covering Vel'Koz during team fights.
There is no one best synergy for Vel'Koz that will always be his best ally. However, overall, Master Yi is a good companion for Vel'Koz. By being on the same team as Vel'Koz, he improves their win rate by 1.2% to 51.5%. This signals that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Vel'Koz and Master Yi that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Master Yi has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means Vel'Koz players don't need to be very careful when lining up Master Yi comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working alongside, Vel'Koz players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Vel'Koz and Master Yi together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of crowd control. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Master Yi ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Vel'Koz in order to synergize with Master Yi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Vel'Koz and Master Yi synergy build include Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Vel'Koz combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Master Yi than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 51.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Master Yi with this build.
To have the highest probability 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. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.5% win rate overall.
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