Vel'Koz with Rakan
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Rakan
based on 817 Vel'Koz with Rakan pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vel'Koz Rakan Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Rakan
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 Rakan Will Play
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Vel'Koz Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, 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 Rakan. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Rakan helps Vel'Koz perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz is paired with Rakan, he observes a sizeable uptick in his total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Rakan helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played alongside Rakan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Rakan.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Rakan on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Rakan does a decent job of covering Vel'Koz in team fights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Rakan
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no ideal synergy for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, Rakan is a superb ally for Vel'Koz. By being on the same team as Vel'Koz, he increases their win rate by 4.9% to 55.2%. This proves that there is a very real bond between Vel'Koz and Rakan that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Rakan has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Rakan comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Vel'Koz players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Vel'Koz and Rakan together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of AD. Plan to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Rakan ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 in order to work well with Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Vel'Koz and Rakan synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Rakan than with many other common builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average win rate of 55.2% when playing alongside Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should use 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 that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 55.2% winrate overall.
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