Vel'Koz with Nami
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Nami
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Vel'Koz Nami Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Nami
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Nami
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 Nami Will Play
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
Vel'Koz Nami Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nami as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Nami synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nami, 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 Nami. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nami helps Vel'Koz perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz tries to synergize with Nami, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This change may signal that Nami helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played with Nami on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Nami. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nami.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Nami on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Nami does a poor job of covering Vel'Koz during team fights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Nami
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Nami?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, Nami is a very typical ally for Vel'Koz. By locking into the same side as Vel'Koz, she decreases their win rate by -0.6% to 49.7%. This signals that there is a weak synergy between Vel'Koz and Nami that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Nami has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means Vel'Koz players don't need to be careful when lining up Nami teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Vel'Koz players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Vel'Koz and Nami together, you will not be granting your side much protection for burst damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Nami teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Vel'Koz in order to synergize with Nami during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Vel'Koz and Nami synergy build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Nami than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average win rate of 49.7% helping carry Nami with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing 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. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.7% winrate overall.
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