Vel'Koz with Poppy
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Poppy
based on 1,206 Vel'Koz with Poppy pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vel'Koz Poppy Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Poppy
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Poppy
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 Poppy Will Play
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Vel'Koz Poppy Synergy Stats
How to Play with Poppy as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Poppy synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Poppy, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Poppy. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Poppy helps Vel'Koz perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz plays on the same team as Poppy, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Poppy supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played with Poppy on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Poppy.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Poppy on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Poppy does a poor job of protecting Vel'Koz in teamfights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Poppy?
There is no perfect companion for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, Poppy is a very typical ally for Vel'Koz. By being on the same side as Vel'Koz, she decreases their win rate by -0.4% to 49.9%. This shows that there is a weak strategic relationship between Vel'Koz and Poppy that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Poppy has a lower difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Poppy comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Vel'Koz and Poppy together, you may not be giving your team much AD. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Poppy teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Vel'Koz to work well with Poppy during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to use in your Vel'Koz and Poppy synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz bought at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Poppy than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 49.9% when playing alongside Poppy with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing 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. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.9% win rate overall.
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