Vel'Koz with Skarner
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Skarner
based on 263 Vel'Koz with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vel'Koz Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Skarner
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 Skarner Will Play
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Vel'Koz Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, 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 Skarner. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Skarner helps Vel'Koz perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz tries to synergize with Skarner, he sees a small increase in his full damage dealt. This change may signal that Skarner provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played together with Skarner 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 with Skarner.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Skarner on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Skarner does a poor job of covering Vel'Koz in teamfights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Skarner
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, Skarner is a terrible ally for Vel'Koz. By being on the same team as Vel'Koz, he decreases their win rate by -4.3% to 46.0%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Vel'Koz and Skarner that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Skarner has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Skarner comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Vel'Koz players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Vel'Koz and Skarner together, you may not be giving your side enough engage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Skarner 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 should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Vel'Koz in order to work well with Skarner during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Vel'Koz and Skarner synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Skarner than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average win rate of 46.0% helping carry Skarner with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Vel'Koz players 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 runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.0% win rate overall.
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