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.
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
The Vel'Koz Vladimir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vladimir, 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 Vladimir. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Vladimir helps Vel'Koz perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz is paired with Vladimir, he gets a little drop in his total damage dealt. This change may signal that Vladimir doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played with Vladimir on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Vladimir.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Vladimir on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Vladimir does a decent job of protecting Vel'Koz during teamfights.
There is no ideal ally for Vel'Koz that will always be his top teammate. Yet, Vladimir is a superb companion for Vel'Koz. By locking into the same side as Vel'Koz, he improves their win rate by 3.1% to 53.4%. This demonstrates that there is a very strong synergy between Vel'Koz and Vladimir that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Vladimir has a lower difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Vladimir teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, Vel'Koz players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Vel'Koz and Vladimir together, you may not be granting your side much AD. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Vladimir ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz in order to synergize with Vladimir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Vel'Koz and Vladimir synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Vladimir than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average winrate of 53.4% helping carry Vladimir with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Vel'Koz players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.4% win rate overall.
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